LET'S ALL SLOW DOWN TIME TOGETHER

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.

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FLORINDA CIUCIOLET’S ALL SLOW DOWN TIME TOGETHER

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LET’S ALL SLOW DOWN TIME TOGETHER
2022, 6’, video intervention

 in frame of an artist residency in Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
 sound by Maria Wildeis

DESCRIPTION

‘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.

The work centers around a digital image mimicking the choreography of colors and movements of a sunset. Simply by watching, viewers are invited to pause, elongate their sense of time, and experience a collective slowing-down. In doing so, they create an intervention in the room by collectively decelerating time within the space. This act becomes a quiet, symbolic protest against the fast pace of modern life, reclaiming control.

This installation also reflects on the fading presence of communal contemplation in public life. Sharing stillness with strangers—like watching a sunset—is a rare yet vital form of connection, especially after years of isolation during the pandemic.

The soundscape, created in collaboration with Maria Wildeis, transforms the sound of a church bell—slowed down, reversed, and blended with hissing birds—creating a meditative, non-time bound atmosphere.