From where do you start — Fireflies Press

From where do you start when drawing a flower?
Matías Piñeiro
November 2026
240 pages
14 x 21.5cm
ISBN 9789893612989
€15 Pre-order

Co-published by Fireflies Press and Batalha Cinema (Porto), this beautiful artist’s book offers insights, at once playful and profound, into the artistic process of Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro.

In a lively, evocative design, texts by Piñeiro are set alongside materials drawn from his personal archive – photographs, watercolours, sketches, handwritten notes, production ephemera, and more – as well as contributions from several of his longstanding collaborators.

Covering a period of 20 years, From where do you start when drawing a flower? opens with reflections on Piñeiro’s first feature, The Stolen Man, and moves on through to his latest, you burn me, while considering influences of other filmmakers, artists and friends.

This exploration of one of the most vibrant oeuvres in contemporary cinema is bookended by an introduction by filmmaker Mariano Llinás and an in-depth conversation with critic and scholar Dennis Lim.