Time Code (2000)

Time Code is an audaciously innovative new film project from Mike Figgis that shatters all the rules. This is a radical break with traditional feature films which ushers in a new millennium of digital filmmaking - a motion picture shot entirely with hand-held digital cameras, in a single continuous take, with no editing.

On a quadruple-split screen, four separate stories unfold simultaneously in real time, building to a final, climactic moment in which they all unexpectedly come together. The plot -- a black comedy thriller set against Los Angeles lifestyles -- literally unfolded before the cameras as the actors each forged a trajectory for their characters based on the central elements of an affair, a murder and the chaos of a Hollywood production office. More »

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