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 CIUCIOTHE MEMORY MACHINE
THE MEMORY MACHINE
2025, 25’, two screen video installation
in collaboration with Joëlle Dubois
Supported by Flanders State of Arts
DESCRIPTION
In collaboration with the artist Joëlle Dubois, THE MEMORY MACHINE is a two-screen video installation centred around the loss of her mother to Alzheimer’s. The installation creates an immersive, reflective space where, in an endless loop, images unfold, guiding the viewer to the subconscious by fluctuating between outward action and inner thought.
The first screen draws you into a cycle of relentless, almost Sisyphian actions. The character (Joëlle Dubois) is caught in a constant attempt to reach something that remains just out of grasp. The repetitive gestures seem to represent a plea or a desperate attempt to make contact with something or someone beyond. As if the movements are meant to summon something buried deep within memory. Dubois reads excerpts from her diairy from 2020-2024 which have evolved into a meditative mantra in the audio of this video.
The images on the second screen are more contemplative: they appear and dissolve like memories surfacing—fluid, shifting, almost hypnotic. While the first video approaches memory through physical action, the second reflects how our mind reshapes and distorts recollections through a blend of archival, associative images, home videos and a brown noisescape.
The spatial setup invites a non-linear experience: the viewer moves back and forth between the two projections, in a twilight zone where past and present, action and reflection, blend together.
The installation invites remembering, but simultaneously confronts the fleeting nature of those same memories. In this way, the artists explore the power and powerlessness of holding on and letting go, and the quiet grief that comes with the fading of connection, especially in the case of a disease like Alzheimer’s.