audiovisual artist & filmmaker
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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.
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.
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FLORINDA CIUCIOLET’S ALL SLOW DOWN TIME TOGETHER
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
LET’S ALL SLOW DOWN TIME TOGETHER is an immersive installation that invites viewers to collectively reclaim their perception of time. It draws on research suggesting that experiences of awe, such as watching a sunset, can alter and slow down our sense of time.
The video consists of a digital image that mimics the shifting colors and movement of a sunset, a stripped-down choreography. By watching it, viewers are invited to pause and experience a shared sense of slowing down. In doing so, they create a collective intervention in the room by “decelerating time” within the space. This becomes a quiet protest against the fast pace of contemporary life and underlines the power of the collective.
The work also reflects on the diminishing role of shared contemplation in public space. Moments of stillness shared with strangers, such as watching a sunset together, have become increasingly rare yet remain essential forms of connection, made especially clear after years of isolation during the pandemic.
The soundscape, created by Maria Wildeis, is based on a church bell - historically used to mark time - slowed down, reversed, and combined with birdsong, producing a meditative, non-linear experience of time.