Daria Arendt (Zabalueva) was born in the family of German Russians in a small town Ulyanovsk. Being raised in the time period, when her parents faced the most difficult challenges after the collapse of USSR, she cultivated her inner core in her very young ages. Daria started her artistic way with poems and short novels, where teenage naivety were mixed with deep suffering from social inequality.
In the age of 17 she made it to Moscow and joined the amateur theatre troop. The troop was focused on making short performances at the crossroads of cultures: classical plots visualised with subcultural context, which included contemporary dance, Japanese rock visual language, cosplay and geek touches.
In a year Daria became leader and director of the troop making her first steps towards her own artistic language.
However, her first degree was not Theatre or Film. She choose Costume Design instead, because at point mentioned her main goal was to make performances visually unique.
When graduated, Daria started to work in collaboration with artist from all around the Globe: from UK to Japan. At the same time she took additional «performance and practise» course to bring her installations and wearable sculpture back to the stage.
But following the desire to expand horizons, in 2019 Daria started experimenting with music videos as well. Her first attempt as film director was named Hanahaki - her reflections on depression as an illness and russian people’s perception of it.
Her second music video-art was a Pandemic child. Daria explored her own feeling of being captured in connection with a chance to slow down and understand her truly self.
It was named EDEN after the Garden of Eden, which Daria desperately wanted to leave. She discussed the importance of separation for personal growth and self-development. More than that it is manifest about her sexuality portrayed as Eve refused to be with Adam as she supposed to. Living in a country with antiLGBTQ+ law, Daria still tried to represent her own feeling about sexual orientation and gender role.
In 2021 Daria finally decided to gain knowledge about Filmmaking, so she took a course in Moscow Film School.
«Out of place», her debut short film, is a result of those studies, but also her own brief look on the artistic way she made. «Out of place» is a huge metaphor with strong visual language, and it also reminds a contemporary theatre placed on the screen. It tells about merciless external circumstances that affects close people’s behaviour as well as faceless crowd’s performance.

In 2022 Daria Arendt has been granted with Global Talent visa UK.