
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.
2026Tropical FractalsMovieArt Direction · Associate Producer · Assistant Editor
2026Memoirs Found in a BathtubMovieExecutive Producer
2026Travelers' SuiteMovie
2025Survival Without RentMovieProducer
2025How to Live TogetherMovieSecond Assistant Camera
2025Language DecayMovieDirector · Producer · Editor · Director of Photography
2024When We Encounter the WorldMovieas Voice · Director · Editor · Producer · Sound · Director of Photography · Writer
2024The Instability of CloudsMovieDirector · Producer · Director of Photography · Editor
2024Bug DinerMovieProduction Design
2023A Slippage in Five MovementsMovieGaffer
2022Treasure HuntMovieas Adventurer #1 · Director · Cinematography
2022NonaMovieas Self · Director · Cinematography · Editor
2021If a Tree Falls in a ForestMovieas Voice
2021PlaydateMovieEditor · Sound · Director · Cinematography
2020Radium GirlsMovieas Frances
2020A Call to SpyMovieas Extra