Dr. Laura Zaylea

Office: 1048 One Park Place

Phone: (404) 413-5658

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e-mail: laurazaylea@gsu.edu

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Laura Zaylea

Lecturer

M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, 2008

Laura Zaylea is an experimental filmmaker and media artist. She recently co-wrote/co-directed Hold The Sun, an experimental feature film that was awarded Best Avant-garde Film at the 2010 Amsterdam Film Festival. Zaylea’s experimental 16mm hand-processed short films have screened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, CA, Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley, CA, PS1 in Queens, NY, and the Notthatbalai Art Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her queer-themed video work includes Lydia Li and Camouflage Pink, for which she received an independent distribution grant from the Open Meadows Foundation. Zaylea’s media installation work includes a film meditation dome, video sculptures in a storefront window, and a mixed media installation including film and video. She is currently working on a feature length screenplay that involves experimental production techniques, multiple narratives and stop-action animation, and she is exploring “alternative screens” (showing work public spaces).

Laura Zaylea recently moved from San Francisco, CA to Atlanta, GA to work as a Film Lecturer at Georgia State University. She received her MFA in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008 and her BA in Art-Semiotics from Brown University in 2003.

More information about her work can be found at www.LauraZaylea.com.

Full Curriculum Vitae is available online at www.LauraZaylea.com/cv

Film & Video

Closer Than Rust – a feature length screenplay and film-in-progress:

http://www.closerthanrust.wordpress.com 

Conference Presentations:

University Film and Video Association Conference, Boston, MA, August, 2011

&Now Festival of New Writing at UCSD, San Diego, CA, October, 2011

Alternative Screenings – Exploring Public Space:

Toronto Urban Film Festival (subway platform screens), Toronto, Canada, 2011

Billboard Art Project (downtown digital billboards), Savannah, GA, 2011

Recent Films:

Her House (experimental short film)

2011, 16mm on HD, 1:00 minute, silent

View online on the Toronto Urban Film Festival website (starting on September 7, 2011)

http://www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com

Hold The Sun (feature film, experimental drama)

2009, Written/Directed by Laura Zaylea and David Yun, HD, 93 minutes

Fertilized by Fire (experimental short film/installation)

2009, film by Laura Zaylea,16mm on DV loop, 8.5 minutes, sound design by Jennifer Rarick

Flower Fall (experimental short film/installation)

2007, film by Laura Zaylea, 16mm, 4 minutes

Links:  http://www.LauraZaylea.com