audiovisual artist & filmmaker
ciucioflorinda@gmail.com
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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 CIUCIOTHE MEMORY MACHINE
THE MEMORY MACHINE
2025, 25’, two screen video installation
in collaboration with Joëlle Dubois
Supported by Flanders State of Arts
THE MEMORY MACHINE is a two-screen installation exploring memory and mourning moving between physical action, a ritualistic choreography, and inner thought, an associative stream of images.
The first screen draws you into a cycle of relentless, almost Sisyphean ritualistic actions performed by Joëlle Dubois, who recently lost her mother to Alzheimer’s. Set in a bucolic landscape, she attempts to summon something buried deep within, through repetitive gestures, including ringing a bell with a headpiece, submerging herself in water, and cutting her hair. The actions feel like a desperate plea to reach something or someone beyond.
You can hear Dubois reading fragments from her diary notes documenting activities she shared with her mother during visits. As she speaks them aloud, the notes evolve into a meditative auditive mantra, accompanying the choreography.
The second screen shows a stream of images that appear and dissolve like surfacing memories, fluid, shifting, almost hypnotic. It combines associative imagery with VHS footage of Dubois’ childhood and iPhone recordings from visits to her mother, layered with a brown noise soundscape, reflecting how memory is reshaped and distorted over time.
Through this, Dubois and Ciucio explore the power and powerlessness of holding on and letting go, and the quiet sorrow of fading connection.
A subtle feminine undercurrent runs through the work, where tenderness and strength coexist, offering alternative ways of experiencing ritual and mourning. THE MEMORY MACHINE becomes an exploration of loss and memory, and a meditation on the embodied, gendered nature of remembering and mourning.