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.
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She holds a BFA from Bard College and an MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts.
Known for
Bug Diner
January 19, 2024
Nona
November 1, 2022
When We Encounter the World
May 1, 2024
Playdate
December 12, 2021
Treasure Hunt
December 1, 2022
A Slippage in Five Movements
September 15, 2023
The Instability of Clouds
January 27, 2024
Language Decay
April 30, 2025
How to Live Together
October 9, 2025
Survival Without Rent
October 30, 2025
Tropical Fractals
May 7, 2026
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
May 1, 2026
Behind the camera13
- 2026Tropical Fractals Art Direction, Associate Producer, Assistant Editor
- 2026Memoirs Found in a Bathtub Executive Producer
- 2025Survival Without Rent Producer
- 2025How to Live Together Second Assistant Camera
- 2025Language Decay Director, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
- 2024When We Encounter the World Director, Sound, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
- 2024The Instability of Clouds Producer, Director, Director of Photography, Editor
- 2024Bug Diner Production Design
- 2023A Slippage in Five Movements Gaffer