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 CIUCIOLES PALISSADES


LES PALISSADES
2022, 15’, video


 in frame of an artist residency in Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
 supported by Flanders State of Arts




DESCRIPTION



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.

Beginning with an exploration of open views and panoramas as sites of communal contemplation in public space, I filmed the highest vantage points in Paris. In seeking these open views that meant to calm the nervous system, I instead mostly encountered views repeatedly interrupted and obscustructed by natural elements.

LES PALISSADES explores this as a way of nature reclaiming space in the humanmade cityscape. Nature, often relegated to the backdrop of a frame, became the foreground. Rather than framing the view, the barriers became the subject, shifting the act of looking into an exploration of what is hidden, unreachable, a view never fully attained.

This tension - between seeing and not seeing, between the city shaping nature and nature reclaiming space- becomes the central focus.










©2026 Florinda Ciucio