Divided into two half-hour parts, punctuated by ideograms which give clues about the emerging narrative. Codex opens as a kind of crazed, electric parody of "tourist London", a zany city nightscape full of motion. The basic device is a special reverse printing process that animates every image, the result is both a teasing juxtaposition of 'picture' (the frame) and 'story' (the continuity of the material world, the city), plus a delightful way of raising the ghost of silent cinema; flurried images that somehow 'speak'. Add a love story, a technology / privacy / paranoia theme, and a great musical soundtrack, and you've got a really good piece of avant- garde cinema; rich, agile, and accessible. –Chris Auty, Time Out: London
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