Zoya Laktionova
Directing
- Born
- December 10, 1984 (age 41) · Mariupol, USSR (Ukraine)
Zoya Laktionova was born in Mariupol (Ukraine), in a working-class family in 1984. She is a filmmaker and visual artist who uses moving images, photography, and texts in her works. Zoya aims to convey emotions through art metaphors intertwined with the dramatic language of cinema. In her artistic practice, she adopts micro-history, auto-ethnography, and creative storytelling to unfold the complexity of greater events and historical contexts. This often makes it difficult to clearly allocate Zoya's films, which is why they are shown both at film festivals (DOK Leipzig, FID Marseille, Cottbus, etc.) and in art museums such as the Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, or the MUMOK in Vienna. Zoya is a recipient of the Harriman Institute Residency at Columbia University '22-23, Civitella Visual Arts Fellow `23-24, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Resident `23-24, Film Independent Global Media Makers Fellow `24, Cite Internationale des Arts resident `24-25.
Known for
Behind the camera8
- 2026Garden of Names Director
- 2023We Have Never Met Producer, Director, Director of Photography, Screenplay, Editor
- 2022Suno Director, Editor, Script, Cinematography
- 2022Remember the Smell of Mariupol Director, Cinematography, Editor
- 2020Territory of Empty Windows Director, Writer
- 2020Lighthouse Cinematography, Editor, Director
- 2018Diorama Cinematography, Director
- TBAAshes Settling in Layers on the Surface Director