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.
CV
FLORINDA CIUCIOTHE TELEPHONE GAME
THE TELEPHONE GAME
2024, 5’, 8-channel sound installation
project support by VOCATIO foundation
installation view at public library ‘Permeke’, Antwerp, Belgium
DESCRIPTION
The sound installation THE TELEPHONE GAME is an exploration of fake news inspired by the children’s game, where a story gets distorted through being passed down a whisper chain. The work playfully reveals how disinformation is created and how stories change as they spread.
The installation features 8 speakers or headphones, each playing one by one a different version of a fictional news article recorded with high-school students in Antwerp, Belgium. The article, filled with intrigue and inspired by the complexities of geopolitics, is passed along in a whisper chain.
Each student shares their memory of the article with the next, gradually distorting the narrative into something increasingly absurd or comical, shaped by their boundless imagination. As the story evolves across 8 speakers, it reveals how easy the truth distorts through repetition.
The work mirrors today's online environment where stories spread and transforming rapidly with each repetition shared. It illustrates how quickly roles can completely shift between “perpetrator” and “victim” or “the good” and “the bad,” exposing the fragile, fluid nature of truth in the digitally overstimulated age.