Zuko Garagić
Known for
Directing
Birthplace
Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Biography
Zuko Garagić’s speculative, historical-biographical films, pursue what he calls “archives of the imagined.” Through setting “dead facts” in the present, foregrounding the mediation between past and present, he looks to question whether history is a vast repository teeming with answers, a refuse heap of discarded dreams, or a bottomless pit that swallows all specificity? He graduated summa cum laude from NYU and earned his MFA from Columbia University, where he also taught film as a Teaching Fellow and Adjunct Professor. Zuko is also a PhD Student at the University of Chicago.
Zuko is currently in development on two feature films: one a documentary about European immigrants who crossed the A...
Best known work
Filmography
2026
Chaos/OrderDirector
2026
The Minusio TapesDirector, Writer, Editor
2025
Anatomy of a Lost SoundDirector
2023
White Birdas Milice Officer #2
2021
Today's SpecialSound Mixer
2020
They Call Me MihajloDirector





