Step Into My Office

Monotony and mundanity. Dress codes, grey partitions, blue swivel chairs.

9 hours a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year.

Our short film and image series aim to explore the nostalgia and surrealness felt toward the office as an environment.

From London-based brand This Belongs To, in collaboration with Photographer Rosie Bell, Filmmaker Phineas Sajous and designer Alia Mehta- the collaborative project uses three office set-builds to explore our relationship to the office environment and its nostalgic nuances.

With inspiration taken from projects operating in various avenues of media, such as LA Lars Tunbjörk’s LA Office (photo series), Ben Stillars’ Severance (TV), Noebert Schoener’s Prada Archives (Fashion), we explore the proliferation of office culture within popular culture at the moment- as we question our relationship to the office environment, and how this aids or inhibits different personalities. We touch upon this using styling, set design and posing. Each of our protagonists wears the This Belongs To’s Trompe L’oeil Pinstripe Silk Suit, coinciding on its release, to retain a sense of continuity and repetitiveness through costume and styling.