audiovisual artist & filmmaker
ciucioflorinda@gmail.com
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My audiovisual practice reflects on life in an overstimulated world.
I create slow, quiet moments that offer pauses in time, to invite deeper reflections on how we perceive and experience our environments and process information. In a world that pushes for constant speed, productivity and attention, exploring what it is to slow down feels to me like a poetic act of resistance.
I often draw inspiration from research on environmental psychology, landscape theory, and mental health to explore how our attention and nervous systems are shaped by the constant flow of daily stimuli and our fading connection to nature.
With a background in film directing, I’m very much influenced by the cinematic experience where viewers sit in a dark room and time feels suspended and controlled. This feeling of immersion and time-awareness shapes how I create work to both calm and unsettle, inviting people not just to look or listen, but to notice themselves: how they wait, how they crave, how they connect.
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.
CV
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.