Timecode (2000)

Directed by

Mike Figgis

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

R

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 98 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows several groups of people in Los Angeles as they interact and clash while getting ready to shoot a movie at a production office. Four continuous takes filmed at the same time are shown together on a split screen, and the sound focuses on whichever quarter has the most important action.

unconventionalfragmentedimprovisationalexperimentalsimultaneousobservationalreal-timechaotic

What happens

Timecode is a 2000 American experimental film written and directed by Mike Figgis and featuring a large ensemble cast, including Salma Hayek, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Suzy Nakamura, Kyle MacLachlan, Saffron Burrows, Holly Hunter, Julian Sands, Xander Berkeley, Leslie Mann and Mía Maestro. The film is constructed from four continuous 98-minute takes that were filmed simultaneously by four cameras; the screen is divided into quarters, and the four shots are shown simultaneously. The film depicts several groups of people in Los Angeles as they interact and conflict while preparing for the shooting of a movie in a production office. The dialogue was largely improvised, and the sound mix of the film is designed so that the most significant of the four sequences on screen dominates the soundtrack at any given moment. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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