Timecode

Timecode

Timecode: 
1) Starting in the late 1990s, many films were shot on DV and transfer to film.
2) Timecode, for example, was shot on DV, late in 1999,
    because the longest that Mike Figgis could shoot film continuously was just over 20 minutes,
    and he wanted to shoot a feature in one take.
3)The four takes in Timecode lasted between 85 and 94 1/2 minutes.
4)The takes started and ended at different times, but the cameras were perfectly synchronized
    with one another so that 85 minutes of the film showed four simultaneous views of a sequence
    of events is it unfolded in real time,
5) in locations that were adjacent to or far from each other but that always were reached in a
     continuous manner, by following a driving or walking character.
6) The four soundtracks varied in volume so that one scene could be concentrated on time.

Notice how Figgis varies the soundtracks between the different quadrants in the following clip from Timecode.

Timecode (Mike Figgis, 2000):

official trailer / for class we saw the opening credits Click Here

At the very end of Timecode is this shot:

TIME CODE was filmed in
4 continuous takes beginning
at 3:00 pm on friday,
november 19th, 1999.
all of the cast improvised around
a predetermined structure.

A note on IMDB:

You are looking at a movie screen split into four parts. You will see a tale of sex and power, captured by four different cameras. You will witness a story told in real time, without any edits. You will experience the first movie ever told in four dimensions.

NYT
The stories that diverge and crisscross for 90 minutes disclose a slice of Hollywood whose governing social conventions are easily gleaned: the primary function of public restrooms is to provide convenient places to snort cocaine, the dispensing of which is the primary function of security guards. Everybody has a cell phone, and nobody has only one sexual partner. Irony is as indistinguishable from sincerity as loneliness is from intimacy. The difference between fantasy and reality is, of course, moot.

"Time Code" is at once a mordant satire of the hypocrisy and self-delusion of the film industry and an earnest declaration of faith in the medium itself.

NYT Article Click Here