Filippo Prestinari

My work uses video as a tool for observation. I am interested in how we look at and interpret reality, and I approach it from three directions that keep returning in my films: memory, the physicality of matter, and an analytical reading of phenomena.

I often start from a simple gesture or hypothesis, dough rising through the night, a world from which people suddenly disappear, the singularity of a black hole, and let image, sound and voice build a space for reflection around it. Time is the common material: the time of work, the time of physics, the time of memory.

Alongside this I work as an editor and director across documentary, contemporary art and fashion. Working every day with other people’s images feeds my own research, and the other way around.

Filippo Prestinari is an artist and filmmaker based in Milan. His practice explores memory, time and space through moving images, combining documentary observation with constructed narratives.