Dylan Zarate is a multimedia artist currently residing in the Greater Los Angeles area. His work focuses on the transience of identity and the boundaries in which one exists, presenting these concepts through an absurdist lens and working primarily in sound, image, and video. As a soundscape creator, Zarate creates under the mononym DNZ and has released his debut album, "Dramaturgy," on his imprint, Information & Entropy in 2021, and released the follow up LP, "Puzzle," in July 2022.
Film Production
- RELINQUISH. Director, editor and composer. 2022
- All Things Change. Director and editor for the video-single by DNZ. 2021
- "I DON'T KNOW WHAT" Is Everywhere - D.S. & DURGA Fragrance Ad. Ensemble Role - Person Getting Tattooed. Dir. Charlotte Ercoli. 2021
- Human Condition. Director of photography, director, and editor for the music video for "Human Condition" by Amber Zarate. 2019-2021
- Everybody Dies. Music score, starring role and stylist for the short film by Anderson Matthew. 2020
- Various Expressions. Sound Composition for the short film by Anderson Matthew. 2020
- Restorative Posture. Music, styling, direction, set design and starring role in the music video by DNZ. 2019-2020
- Stories of Home and Here. Soundtrack Composition for the experimental documentary by Anderson Matthew. 2018-2020
- Beyond the Clouds. Ensemble role in the music for the band You’ll Never Get to Heaven, directed by Oscar Flores. 2017
- Destroyers. Starring role in the music video for the band Ramonda Hammer, directed by Anderson Matthew. 2017
- Jennie Treadmaylor. Sound Composition for the short film by Pablo Valencia. 2016
Music Production
Full Length LPs
- Puzzle - DNZ (2022)
- Dramaturgy - DNZ (2021)
Singles
- Silk Road - DNZ (2022)
- Truant - DNZ (2021)
- Restorative Posture b/s Purity - DNZ (2020)
- luvher's game - Amber Zarate (2018)
- Human Condition (Instrumental) - Amber Zarate (2018)
- Dirtbox - DNZ (2018)
Exhibitions / Festivals
"Glean New Deal" Group Exhibition at Flowerhead in Los Angeles, CA. March 4-26, 2022.
The End of History (2022)
"Springtime" Group Exhibition in Brooklyn, NY. May 13, 2022.
Paperweight (The Transfiguration of the Virgin Mother) [2022]
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Everybody Dies, Anderson Matthew, United States, 8min. 1s.
- Silver Dusk 5 Los Angeles, CA USA (2022)
- Sister Midnight Los Angeles, CA USA (2022)
- Prisme #4 Nantes, France (*Everybody Dies on 35mm) [2021]
- Festival Tous Courts Aix-en-Provence, France (2021)
- Baitball 02 - Polignano a Mare, Italy (2021)
- Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland (2021)
- WNDX Film Festival Winnipeg, Canada (2021)
- Altered Images Fest London (2021)
- Bogota Experimental Film Festival Bogota, Colombia (2021)
- Some Things Hidden / Some Things Undone, New Work by Anderson Matthew (February 27, 2021 - April 11, 2021) at Flower Head. Per Anderson Matthew's website: "LA-based artist Dylan Zarate / DNZ frequently collaborates with [Anderson] Matthew; they are muse and composer for the dizzy, ecstatic Everybody Dies (2020), and appear as a mysterious being in the Apocalypse Veil (2019/2020) photo series. In both still and moving images, Zarate’s existentially weighty performances are simultaneously constructed and deeply vulnerable."