In 2003, Maurício Dias and Walter Riedweg undertook an oral history project on male prostitution in the Raval neighbourhood in Barcelona. Of the eighteen young men contacted, eleven agreed to take part. They were interviewed in a nearby apartment, with their real faces and names concealed. Depending on whether the interviewer was Dias or Riedweg, the interviewee was given a mask in the likeness of one or the other, so that they were always speaking to a double. The conversations began with their background, education and work but soon turned towards their perceptions of the body, time and the voracity of life. To capture this, Dias and Riedweg filmed the men’s bodies in extreme close-up, transforming hair, marks and contours into abstract landscapes. “The body as homeland and as foreign territory. The body as a port from which to depart and an island on which to arrive,” the artists explained. Since prostitution is an urban phenomenon, akin to traffic, they wrote “Maximum Voracity” in Spanish in white letters on the tarmac of the street below the apartment where the recordings were made.