audiovisual artist & filmmaker
ciucioflorinda@gmail.com
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My audiovisual practice reflects on how we perceive and inhabit our environments. I create slow, quiet moments that act as pauses in time, opening up spaces for reflection on how reality is constructed, mediated, and experienced.
Through stillness, repetition and duration, I explore boundaries between inside and outside, nature and the built environment, presence and illusion.
With a background in film directing, I am strongly influenced by the cinematic experience: the darkened room, the fixed frame, and a sense of suspended time. Exploring what it is to slow down, in a world that pushes for constant speed, productivity and attention, feels to me like a poetic act of resistance.
This sensibility shapes how I construct installations and videos that oscillate between calm and subtle tension, inviting viewers not only to look or listen, but to become aware of their own presence: how they wait, how they observe, how they relate to the space.
Alongside this, my documentary practice is based on poetical observations that are rooted in sensorial experience of environments. Working with real-time observation, my films emphasize tactility and presence over explanation, using landscape, movement and everyday gestures to carry meaning. Experiences of migration, belonging, friendship and time are allowed to unfold gradually, through slowness, repetition, and metaphor.
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FLORINDA CIUCIOGOALS
GOALS
2022, 15’, short documentary
direction: Florinda Ciucio
camera: Dries Vanderaerden & Renaat Lambeets
sound: Laurens De Smet & Gillis Van Der Wee
musicscore: Arthur Brouns
edit: Louis Deruddere
production: Borgerhoff&Lamberigts, KETNET, JEF
supported by VAF
official première DOK Leipzig 2022
official selection school program IDFA 2022
official selection Cinekid Festival 2022
official selection JEF Film Festival 2022
official selection Docville Festival 2022
official selection Film Fest Dresden 2022
official selection Go Short Film Festival 2022
official selection Athens Children’s Film Festival 2023
official selection Beholder Film Festival 2023
official selection Cut to Gent Film Festival 2023
official selection Olympia Film Festival 2023
- Series nomination for ENSORS 2023 ‘Best Docu-series’
DESCRIPTION
‘GOALS’ is a documentary film for children about 2 best friends, Charlotte and Husna, living together in the neighbourhood ‘Luchtbal’ in Antwerp. The film was commissioned through the initiative ‘Ket&Doc’ by VAF, KETNET and JEF Film festival, to initiate the production of children’s author’s documentaries .
Husna and Charlotte play football together in a team at the local club, both dream of a professional football career. But Charlotte’s talent stands out, soon she is off to professional sports boardingschool and has to miss her best friend on the field. The film follows Husna and Charlotte’s last summer playing together, documenting how their friendship will take a new dimension.