Contrapposto (4 mins) was made for the Isolation Room project during the Covid pandemic in summer 2020. Responses to a simple series of questions about working during lockdown appear as subtitles over a slow 360-degree tour of Dunhill and O’Brien’s densely packed studio. Maria Callas can be heard playing in the space alongside the steady noise of the motor driving the camera’s circular movement, while the deadpan account of studio life continues.
The film ends by returning to an image first explored during their British School at Rome residency in 2003, some seventeen years earlier, a bodily posture that gives the film its title, now revisited with the minor but perhaps telling addition of socks.