audiovisual artist & filmmaker
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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.
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FLORINDA CIUCIO
THE MEMORY MACHINE
2025,25’,2-screen video installation
In collaboration with the artist Joëlle Dubois, THE MEMORY MACHINE is a two-screen video installation centred around the loss of her mother to Alzheimers. The installation creates an immersive, reflective space where, in an endless loop, images unfold, guiding the viewer to the subconscious and fluctuating between outward action and inner thought.
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TERZO PAESAGGIO
2025,11’,video installation
TERZO PAESAGGIO challenges the borders between reality and illusion with landscape observations captured solely through window reflection.
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GREEN DOSE
2024, three-screen video installation
GREEN DOSE features CGI landscapes inspired by the iconic Val di Mello region, accompanied by a pink noise soundscape simulating water. It explores the scientific theory ‘Attention Restoration Theory’, suggesting that immersing yourself in a natural landscape that invites exploration and novelty, reduces stress by engaging the brain’s default mode network.
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BUSRIDE
2025, 10’, video installation
BUSRIDE is a video installation featuring a smartphone playing 11 minutes of video footage shot from inside a bus, capturing the view along the bus route 70 in Milan.
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SCREEN TIME
2025, 5’, video installation with wooden structure
Inspired by the recent popular use of fake fireplace videos, SCREEN TIME is a variation on this concept using landscapes, staging a fake window view to construct an artificial outdoor scene.
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THE TELEPHONE GAME
2024, 8-channel sound installation
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.
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LES PALISSADES
2022, 15’, video
Filmed from the highest viewpoints in Paris, the video searches for open panoramas meant to offer collective contemplation, only to encounter views increasingly obstructed by natural elements. LES PALISSADES turns this obstruction into its subject, exploring the tension between seeing and not seeing as nature reclaims space within the human-made cityscape.
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LET’S ALL SLOW DOWN TIME TOGETHER
2022, 6’, video intervention, in collab with Maria Wildeis
LET’S ALL SLOW DOWN TIME TOGETHER is an immersive installation inviting people to collectively reclaim their control and sense of time. Inspired by research showing that the specific feeling of awe—like when watching a sunset—can slow down our perception of time.
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NOTIFICATION
2023,47” loop, sound installation
NOTIFICATION features a single speaker placed next to a window in the exhibition space. It invites the audience to reflect on their capacity for attention, contemplation and boredom, inviting them to gaze outside the window. The sound, an artificially emulated gong, plays every 47 seconds, created by blending and distorting today’s most common phone notification tones.
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JUPITER
2022,4’33”,video
JUPITER combines footage of nighttime lightning over the mountains of Corniglio, Italy with a soundscape featuring a variety of drumming sounds.
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GOALS
2022, documentary film
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 .
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THE VESSEL
2021, 1H loop, 3-channel video installation
THE VESSEL is an installation featuring three video projections paired with a pink-noise soundscape. Visitors enter a pitch-dark room containing a black box. On the box’s three adjoining walls, video projections unfold while sound plays from two speakers suspended above. The projections consist of selected fragments of old Super 8 films shot by my maternal grandparents, inland shipmen traveling in the 1970s.
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OF PLANTS AND PLACES
2025, 5’, documentary film
OF PLANTS AND PLACES follows Amr, who moved from Aleppo to Madrid, as he reflects on the experience of being “The Other” while walking through the Royal Botanical Garden. Through a mosaic of catalogued plant images, the work uses botanical imagery as an allegory for migration, displacement, and belonging.
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14:26 CEST
2017, 15’, documentary film
14:26 CEST is a poetic reflection on time and place, set in an Italian mountain village where life unfolds in slow, cyclical rhythms shaped by the surrounding landscape. Through real-time observations of everyday moments, the film invites contemplation of stillness, presence, and repetition, proposing a way of being rooted in acceptance and quiet continuity.
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WHERE THERE IS NO POINT
2016, 8’, documentary film
WHERE THERE IS NO POINT examines how the meaning of the sea shifts for people who crossed it seeking refuge in Europe. Created in collaboration with residents of the Klein Kasteeltje asylum center in Brussels, the film centers on tactile, sensory testimonies of the sea crossing.
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