James Nares’s STREET at the Metropolitain Museum.

http://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/video/collections/ph/street

My intention was to give the dreamlike impression of floating through a city full of people frozen in time, caught Pompeii-like, at a particular moment of thought, expression, or activity…a film to be viewed 100 years from now.

—James Nares

Nares fulfilled his intention. In sixteen hours of footage he filmed on Manhattan streets from a moving car with a camera meant to capture hummingbirds in flight or the trajectory of a whizzing bullet, he slowed and edited down to an hour. Each blink of hailing of a cab takes on a holiness. Each hand that nearly meets with a casual swing of the arm is like God and Adam almost touching on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.