Zazie Ray-Trapido
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
2026
- Tropical Fractals ... (Art Direction)
- Memoirs Found in a Bathtub ... (Executive Producer)
- Travelers' Suite
2025
- How to Live Together ... (Second Assistant Camera)
- Language Decay ... (Director)
- Survival Without Rent ... (Producer)
2024
- Bug Diner ... (Production Design)
- The Instability of Clouds ... (Producer)
- When We Encounter the World as Voice
2023
- A Slippage in Five Movements ... (Gaffer)
2022
- Nona as Self
- Treasure Hunt as Adventurer #1
2021
- If a Tree Falls in a Forest as Voice
- Playdate
2020
- Radium Girls as Frances
- A Call to Spy as Extra