Strangers paid to sit alone for 3 minutes. What they do will haunt you.
asking people on the street to take a seat in front of his camera in a big white tent. He offers them three real (about one euro) for three minutes of their solitude. The tent is located on a square in Recife, a large Brazilian city. people smile stiffly, wave, make the sign of the horns, defiantly lick their lips, or shed their tears.
Direction
Aragão's static frame becomes a confessional.
Editing
Ruthless cuts between bravado and breakdown.
Director
Daniel Aragão
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Recife's economic inequality means that one euro carries different weight across subjects; some need it, others barely notice it.
The white tent deliberately evokes medical and confessional spaces—Aragão wanted a 'non-place' where class markers temporarily dissolve.
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