A dog that barks day and night, a boy with half his body out the window, a family exercising, a man jumping rope, a woman reading a book, someone smoking a cigarette, a couple dancing reggaeton, a man working on his computer, a girl playing hopscotch, someone talking on their phone, a boy swinging. Looking out from the seventh floor, locked down at home, time goes by in circles. Suddenly it's like we're confined to Groundhog Day. Stepping on the street is for essential reasons only and the balconies in the City of Buenos Aires are the closest thing to the sun, to breathing fresh air, to relief. Every evening, at nine o'clock, the balcony summons all neighbors to the same thing: clap in support of health workers who fight face-to-face with the coronavirus, but in the meantime, everybody looks for a piece of freedom in their own way.
This hand-held recorded video documents the balconies of a block in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito after the start of the mandatory quarantine in Argentina on March 20, 2020.
