The Quiet Hour — title sequence.The Quiet Hour — title sequence.

Opening titles for a fictional psychological thriller. Every object is a clock part drawn in code: an enamel dial in macro, a brass escapement wheel, an iron key on oxblood, a keyhole the camera pushes through, typewriter keys. Credits are scratched into the emulsion and boil on twos, with single-frame flashes on every metallic hit. The score is a clock: tick-tock on the beat, an industrial pulse, detuned drones. On the title impact the clock stops, the dial pulls back into the Q of THE QUIET HOUR, its second hand becomes the Q's tail, and the letters burn into the film.