audiovisual artist & filmmaker
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Florinda Ciucio (Antwerp, 1993) is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Italy and Belgium. She graduated from LUCA School of Arts in Brussels as a film director. After directing several short films, she developed an interest in video art and installation work.
Her artistic practice focuses on the creation of immersive environments using moving image and sound, examining the relationship between the nervous system and the audiovisual medium. Influenced by her background in cinema, she works with fixed frames, darkened spaces, and suspended time.
Working with time as a central element, she uses rhythm, repetition, and routine to create slow, attentive moments that highlight the process of looking, listening, and paying attention in an overstimulated visual culture.
Her current research examines our relationship to landscape and technology, creating work that functions both sensorially and critically. Through this, her work engages with landscape as a constructed and mediated space, where technological processes actively shape how reality is seen, understood, and experienced. She uses media such as film footage, CGI, AI, archival video, sound design, photography, and spatial installations.
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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 IDFA school program 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 encourage 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.