In the dark, when the late-night traffic was over and the dawn traffic hadn't begun: silence.
To quote the Talmud, "Wisdom begins in silence".
Fittingly for a film that stars The Artist's Bérénice Bejo, The Past begins in silence.
Theorem begins in silence, before the opening monochrome turns into sharp colour.
"Flux," another new dance, begins in silence, with dancers posing and preening against a landscape of moody lighting.
As per the title, the score begins in silence and grows in an arc that's unpretentiously easy to follow.
This clip of the tsunami hitting the coast begins with silence and gently rocking boats, before the water overcomes a wall and begins tearing through the streets.
The keyboard notes, sometimes metallic in tone, are dropped into a well-defined musical space, although the piece begins in silence with the house lights up.
But it is perhaps even more devastating, because it strikes younger people, progresses faster and, unlike Alzheimer's, does not attack memory at first but begins with silence, apathy or bizarre personality changes.
It begins in silence, interrupted by the screech of minimalist composer La Monte Young's 2 Sounds, which comprises the sound of ashtrays scraped against a mirror, and that of pieces of wood rubbed against a Chinese gong.
