Confetti With Consequences

A community hall ten minutes after a small ceremony. Nothing falls from the sky. Paper confetti is already on the linoleum, in the tape residue by the door, on the seats of the folding chairs, and still on the shoulders and in the hair of two people stacking those chairs. A third drags a wide push broom; the pile it gathers is damp and stuck where drinks were spilled, so the broom skips. Sean Baker's 16mm street-level register: 35mm at f/2.8, handheld from seated height, the operator panning late to catch the broom after it has started moving. Dirty foreground: a stack of chair legs crossing frame left and a balloon ribbon drifting through. Materials: scuffed pale-green linoleum, punched paper dots gone soft with humidity, varnish worn off the chair rails. Overhead fluorescent only, one tube pinker than the rest. 24fps, no on-screen text.