The slow-motion beauty of "8 Hours in Brooklyn"

(CBS) - It's not easy to capture the essence of a city. Aerial shots? Stop-motion? Time-lapse? Those are all very cool tricks. But the makers of this video took a different angle: filming a handful of evocative shots in super-slow-motion. The result is the visually stunning video "8 Hours in Brooklyn".

Next Level Pictures is the studio behind this beautiful short. As the director Jonathan Bregal writes:

Anyway, the idea behind this video was to document whatever sort of culture we could find within an 8 hour span with literally no pre-production. I have honestly seen too many slow-motion explosions, face slaps, and popping water baloons, that I thought capturing real culture, and real emotion would be a cool change of pace.

Job well done on that change-of-pace front, for sure.