Zazie Ray-Trapido
Directing
Zazie Ray-Trapido is a filmmaker and producer based in Los Angeles. Her films expand on traditional documentary and narrative formats, engaging with analog film techniques, archives, and performance. Her practice investigates relationships between memory, ideology, and the environment.
Her work has been screened at festivals and venues worldwide, including the New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Viennale, RIDM, Kasseler Dokfest, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Curtas Vila do Conde, Oberhausen, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, ICDOCS, and Maysles Documentary Center, among others.
She holds a BFA from Bard College and an MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts.
Known For
Filmography · 17
—Forking PathsProducer2026Tropical FractalsArt Direction · Associate Producer · Assistant Editor2026Memoirs Found in a BathtubExecutive Producer2026Travelers' Suite2025Survival Without RentProducer2025How to Live TogetherSecond Assistant Camera2025Language DecayDirector · Producer · Editor · Director of Photography2024When We Encounter the WorldVoice · Director · Editor · Producer · Sound · Director of Photography · Writer2024The Instability of CloudsDirector · Producer · Director of Photography · Editor2024Bug DinerProduction Design2023A Slippage in Five MovementsGaffer2022Treasure HuntAdventurer #1 · Director · Cinematography2022NonaSelf · Director · Cinematography · Editor2021If a Tree Falls in a ForestVoice2021PlaydateEditor · Sound · Director · Cinematography2020Radium GirlsFrances2020A Call to SpyExtra