From the quiet Lions Gate Bridge to the Olympic cauldron, Granville Street, the Burrard Bridge, and more, the footage paints an eerie picture of a city in lockdown. It does, however, end with Vancouver’s nightly cheer at 7:00 PM for front-line workers and images of inspiring murals painted on boarded-up windows.
According to Watson, in an email to online publication Vancouver Is Awesome, “I think the only real reason I stepped out to make this video was simply to document a very important time in Vancouver’s history. Something of this magnitude has never happened before and the most interesting part of it all is that by doing their part, many people haven’t seen how much life in the city has slowed down.”
This strange but encouraging sight has also been captured on video in San Francisco and Cape Town, where the streets are also empty during the COVID-19 health crisis. 