Zoya Laktionova
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.
Credits
Newest first- Garden of NamesDirector2026
We Have Never MetDirector2023- We Have Never MetDirector of Photography2023
- We Have Never MetEditor2023
- We Have Never MetScreenplay2023
- We Have Never MetProducer2023
SunoDirector2022- SunoCinematography2022
- SunoEditor2022
- SunoScript2022
Remember the Smell of MariupolDirector2022- Remember the Smell of MariupolCinematography2022
- Remember the Smell of MariupolEditor2022
Territory of Empty WindowsDirector2020- Territory of Empty WindowsWriter2020
LighthouseCinematography2020- LighthouseEditor2020
- LighthouseDirector2020
DioramaCinematography2018- DioramaDirector2018
Ma2017
Ashes Settling in Layers on the SurfaceDirector—