Known for

Directing

Zazie Ray-Trapido

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.

Titles

A Call to Spy

Movie • 2020

Radium Girls

Movie • 2020

Tropical Fractals

Movie • 2026

How to Live Together

Movie • 2025

The Instability of Clouds

Movie • 2024

When We Encounter the World

Movie • 2024

If a Tree Falls in a Forest

Movie • 2021

Nona

Movie • 2022

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

Movie • 2026

Playdate

Movie • 2021

Travelers' Suite

Movie • 2026

Bug Diner

Movie • 2024