audiovisual artist & filmmaker
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Florinda Ciucio (Antwerp, 1993) is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Italy and Belgium. She graduated from LUCA School of Arts in Brussels as a film director. After directing several short films, she developed a practice in video art and installation work.
Influenced by her background in cinema, she works with fixed frames, darkened spaces, and suspended time. Working with time as a central element, she uses rhythm, repetition, and routine to create slow, attentive moments that highlight the process of looking, listening, and paying attention in an overstimulated visual culture.
Her current research examines our relationship to landscape and technology, creating work that functions both sensorially and critically. Through this, her work engages with landscape as a constructed and mediated space, where technological processes actively shape how reality is seen, understood, and experienced. She uses media such as film footage, CGI, AI, archival video, sound design, photography, and spatial installations.
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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.