Take-Away Shows are directed by Vincent Moon and comissioned by Blogotheque.net. They feature musical acts and are usually very simple and location dependent. The artists use everyday objects to create the sounds. The continuos shots used give it a raw feeling.
Rope directed by Alfred Hitchcock was intended to be one continuous shot but since it was filmed on 35mm film, the reel could only hold 1,000 feet of film. It consists of 10 long takes.
Timecode was shot by four different cameramen, the screen is split into quarters and the continuous shots play simultaneously and at moments the characters story lines cross paths.
Russian Ark, a 90 minute continuous shot, was filmed with a glide cam in 33 rooms of a museum with over 2,000 actors.
PVC-1 is a real-time thriller filmed in a single shot. It follows a woman who has been kidnapped and turned into a human bomb, for the duration of the film she is trying to escape the inevitability of her death. The film uses the main character as a metaphor for time, how it governs our lives and how it cannot be altered.
