>This is all very frustrating!  Critic Adrian Martin once told me of a
>South American (Central American?) feature which is ostensibly a
>continuous shot, set in an apartment, the idea being that a video-camera
>has been left running when a man has an assignation there with a woman.


Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's 1990 La Tarea / Homework.  It's Mexican and
available on US DVD (also quite boring and unimaginative).


>BTW, I'm told that a recent Russian film also uses the 10-minute take.


Probably Sokurov's Russian Ark except it doesn't use 10-minute takes but is
actually a single unedited 96-minute take (welcome to the wonders of DV).

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