14:26 CEST — Florinda Ciucio

audiovisual artist & filmmaker
ciucioflorinda@gmail.com
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Florinda Ciucio (Antwerp, 1993) is a visual artist and filmmaker from Belgium. She graduated from LUCA School of Arts in Brussels as a film director. After directing several short films, she developed a practice in video art and installation work.

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 CIUCIO14:26 CEST

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14:26 CEST
2017, 15’, film

 production: LUCA School of Arts Brussels
 direction: Florinda Ciucio
 camera: Dries Vanderaerden
 sound: Feras Daouk
 edit: Florinda Ciucio

DESCRIPTION

14:26 CEST is a poetic meditation on time and place, capturing the quiet rhythms of an Italian mountain village.

Immersing the viewer in a different temporal dimension, the film reveals a world where time unfolds cyclically, shaped by the grandeur of the surrounding landscape. Here, nothing is expected beyond what already exists; a continuum of pace, presence, and repetition.

Through presenting real-time paced observations—a wisp of smoke curling from a chimney, sheep grazing in the afternoon light—the film invites contemplation of stillness. Its central narrative echoes this sentiment: “Why not be like the mountains? Vast, content, and in their place. They are destined to look at the same scene forever, with nothing else to expect.”