
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 th...
Best known work
Filmography
TBA
Forking PathsProducer
2026
Tropical FractalsArt Direction, Associate Producer, Assistant Editor
2026
Memoirs Found in a BathtubExecutive Producer
2026
2025
Survival Without RentProducer
2025
How to Live TogetherSecond Assistant Camera
2025
Language DecayDirector, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
2024
When We Encounter the Worldas Voice, Director, Editor, Producer, Sound, Director of Photography, Writer
2024
The Instability of CloudsDirector, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
2024
Bug DinerProduction Design
2023
2022
Treasure Huntas Adventurer #1, Director, Cinematography
2022
Nonaas Self, Director, Cinematography, Editor
2021
If a Tree Falls in a Forestas Voice
2021
PlaydateEditor, Sound, Director, Cinematography
2020
Radium Girlsas Frances
2020
A Call to Spyas Extra









