We Are

Using the language of cinema, this short film tells the story of Pirelli’s rich cultural legacy, portraying it as a stage where arts and technology perform together.

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“What was the night like?”“Clear”

from The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht

A story in pictures inspired by The Life of Galileo, a play by Bertolt Brecht, which looks at the various areas of corporate culture that are promoted by the Pirelli Foundation: music, theatre, art, literature, research, innovation, and sustainability.

The set is a geography of places and worlds of the imagination. There is the archive, with over four kilometres of shelving preserved at the heart of the company headquarters, with a wealth of historical and contemporary values and memories.

And there is the factory as a place of community, of work and knowledge, now a realm of rituals and new myths – the epitome of industrial humanism.

The Pirelli Research and Development laboratories, where rubber is transformed by a long-standing knowledge of materials and an alchemical understanding of the compounds and of the geometric properties of surfaces, patterns and carvings.