A cold blue horizon before sunrise over the city.

The Quiet Hours

A short documentary about a night bus route and the people who keep it running.

Client
Private commission
Location
Glasgow, Scotland
Year
2023
Runtime
11 min
Category
Documentary
Blue pre-dawn light over a low city skyline.

About the film

Filmed over six night shifts between midnight and five in the morning, almost entirely at ISO settings that would normally be avoided. The grain is part of the film.

The structure follows a single loop of the route rather than a chronology, so the film returns to the same stops in different states of empty.

Services on this project

  • Access and research
  • Night shoot
  • Location sound
  • Edit
  • Grade

Frames from the shoot

Streetlight against a dark road.
An empty stop before first light.
Dawn beginning at the edge of the city.

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