Risk-taking in the film industry is less about Art than profit, but every now and then a brave person challenges that trend with an experiment. In 2000, Mike Figgis pushed digital video to create one film out of four concurrent, unedited shots, shown simultaneously in the quadrants of a single screen. DV has come a long way from Timecode’s soupy grain and thin, but playful plot of Hollywood-intrigue. This year, Alexander Sokurov’s dream project became reality thanks to 24p High Definition DV cameras, and a prototype 100 minute capacity hard disk. In Russian Ark, a narrator guides the camera for a single 90 minute shot through the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, revisiting some more opulent points in Russia’s pre-Communist past. Coming to the Music Box January 31.