Forays into digital video technology led Figgis to conceive of and direct "Timecode", which took advantage of the technology to create an ensemble film shot simultaneously with four cameras all in one take and also presented simultaneously and uncut, dividing the screen into four-quarters. He returned to the "Timecode" quad-screen approach for his section of "Ten Minutes Older", but has also worked on documentary pieces including a segment of "The Blues (called Red, White, and Blues)" and a short piece on flamenco. His curiosity with the cinematic use of time has led him to cite Robert Enrico's 1962 film version of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" as an influential film for him. Figgis has a well-documented love-hate relationship with the Hollywood system which leads him to often be an outspoken critic of the system while also despairing the lack of a better alternative, in his mind, at the moment. At an appearance at Camerimage in 2005, he expressed the view that filmmaking had become "boring and perhaps need to become even worse before anything better can emerge" successfully at least in reaction.