Directing
Zoya Laktionova
- Born
- Dec 10, 1984 · Age 41
- Place of birth
- Mariupol, USSR (Ukraine)
- Gender
- Female
- Movie credits
- 1
- TV credits
- 0
- Directing credits
- 8
Also known as (2)
- Zoia Laktionova
- Зоя Лактіонова
Biography
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,…
