Timecode (film)

Timecode is a 2000 American experimental film written and directed by Mike Figgis and featuring a large ensemble cast, including Salma Hayek, Stellan Skarsgrd, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Suzy Nakamura, Kyle MacLachlan, Saffron Burrows, Holly Hunter, Julian Sands, Xander Berkeley, Leslie Mann and Ma Maestro.

The film takes place in and around a film production company office, and involves several interweaving plot threads which include a young actress named Rose Salma Hayek who tries to score a screen test from her secret boyfriend Alex Green Stellan Skarsgrd, a noted but disillusioned director. Meanwhile, Roses tryst with him is discovered by her girlfriend Lauren Jeanne Tripplehorn, an insanely jealous businesswoman who plants a microphone in Roses purse and spends most of the time in the back of her limousine parked outside the office building listening in on Roses conversations. Elsewhere, Alexs wife Emma Saffron Burrows is seen with a therapist Glenne Headly debating about asking him for a divorce. In the meantime, numerous film industry types played by Xander Berkeley, Golden Brooks, Holly Hunter and Kyle MacLachlan, pitch ideas for the next big hit film.The movie was shot with four handheld digital cameras, in one take, on the sixteenth performance. Largely improvised, Figgis provided the actors with blank four octave music paper with each octave representing a camera view at that particular moment in time up to the 93 minutes of camera capacity. The actors themselves personally kept track of the activities occurring in other camera points of view that were relative to their performance. Rehearsals were singletake performances, filmed over fifteen days. Filmed in the mornings, with the actors fully involved, the footage was reviewed and discussed in the afternoons. Four separate monitors replayed each camera point of view simultaneously. ........

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