Josh Hite and Scott Billings are working on a video project that was shot in a hidden stairwell inside of the Burrard Bridge during April 2011. The stairwell once allowed people to access Kits Point without having to walk an extra kilometer to the end of the bridge and back. Public access is rumored to have lasted only a few months after the bridge opened on Canada Day in 1932. It was a desolate and secluded space, and during the Depression a few altercations occurred and the light fixtures and brass railings quickly went missing, prompting its closure.
With generous support from the Vancouver City Engineers, Canada Council and B.C. Arts Council, Vancouver Public Art Program, Vancouver Film School, and Camera Rentals Vancouver, the stairwell was partially opened for the project, which involved the construction of an apparatus to take a camera up and down the stairwell in a helical fashion, looking at both the space itself and the ideas circulating around stairwell images in cinema.
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