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 CIUCIOWHERE THERE IS NO POINT


WHERE THERE IS NO POINT
2016, 8’, documentary film


 production: RITCS School of Arts
 direction: Aisha Adepoju & Florinda Ciucio
 camera: Ivo Van Hoof
 edit: Toon Minnen 



DESCRIPTION


'Where There Is No Point’ explores the shifting perception of the sea through the eyes of those who have crossed it in search of refuge in Europe. For many, the sea once symbolized hope, a passage to a new life. But after enduring the perilous journey, how has their view of it changed?

The film was created in collaboration with residents of the “Klein Kasteeltje” asylum center in Brussels, who shared their testimonies of crossing the sea. By focusing only on the tactile experience of their journey on sea, they recount their stories with vivid, sensory detail.

Visually, the film weaves together two elements: projected found footage of the sea from YouTube and social media, emphasizing the mediatization of migration narratives, and studio portraits of the storytellers themselves, positioned opposite images of the sea—a confrontation between lived experience and its representation.










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