Tim Hyde © Installation view:“Inaugural Exhibit” March 16 – July 16 2010
Single channel video projection, 5min, Sound
Bus Passengers [Video still] 5min / loop / No sound / 2005
Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
Curated by Christopher McCall


Bus Passengers

“Bus Passengers” is a series of video portraits of passengers on the bus at night, filmed openly from the sidewalk as buses moved up Broadway in New York City. Each portrait frames a single passenger, staying with them until the bus pulls away. The finished piece juxtaposes two sequences of portraits together, creating a filmic illusion that reconstructs the city into an uncomfortably intimate version of itself. Strangers are pulled in close, becoming foils for internal projections of repulsion, desire, sympathy, and allowing first impressions to be corrupted over time.

Tim Hyde © Bus Passengers March 16 – July 16 2010
[Video still] 2005
5min, loop, No sound


Tim Hyde © Bus Passengers
[Video still] 2005
5min, loop, No sound


Tim Hyde © Bus Passengers
[Video still] 2005
5min, loop, No sound
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