Natasha Florentino
Meet 2024–2025 Artist as Instigator Natasha Florentino
Natasha Florentino is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and video producer whose practice involves deep research, community engagement, and a sustained commitment to revealing the power dynamics behind displacement. Natasha is currently producing a film about the fight for public housing that follows residents who oppose the proposed demolition of two public housing developments in New York City.
The Public Record
Natasha will leverage her Artist as Instigator residency to complete a 30-minute documentary on the proposed demolition of the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, working on the final stages of production, post-production, distribution, and public engagement.
Natasha FlorentinoDisplacement left a permanent imprint on my life. It shaped my commitment to expose the roots and consequences of housing injustice through documentary filmmaking.
How it started
Artist Talk with Natasha Florentino
Recorded December 5, 2024
Meet National Public Housing Museum’s sixth Artist as Instigator Natasha Florentino, who shares her past work and her plans for her 2024–2025 residency, including ways you can get involved, and support the national fight for public housing.