“El Sojero” by Reed Purvis
The center of Buenos Aires. A city divided according to its uses: sidewalks for pedestrians, streets for cars and buses, bike lanes for bikes and scooters, plazas with rows of trees, rows of lamps and geometric shapes. Buildings under construction and an apartment building doorman, cleaning the sidewalk in front of the building where he works.
The doorman returns from work to the informal urban settlement or barrio popular where he lives. The narrow alley-like street, full of life, serves as the neighborhood patio, fluid in its form and its uses, as neighbors joke and play card games in the street. What does this contrast in urban forms reveal, if anything?
CREDITS
Writer, Director, Editor// Reed Purvis
Director of Photography// Miguel Valfré
Production Manager// Vera Concilio
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