Person
Zazie Ray-Trapido
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.
Known for
Treasure Hunt
Adventurer #1
Tropical Fractals
Art Direction
Radium Girls
Frances
A Call to Spy
Extra
Nona
Self
Playdate
2021
A Slippage in Five Movements
Gaffer
Travelers' Suite
2026
Forking Paths
Producer
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
Executive Producer
Filmography
- 2026Tropical FractalsArt Direction
- 2026Memoirs Found in a BathtubExecutive Producer
- 2026Travelers' Suite
- 2025Survival Without RentProducer
- 2025How to Live TogetherSecond Assistant Camera
- 2025Language DecayDirector
- 2024When We Encounter the WorldVoice
- 2024The Instability of CloudsProducer
- 2024Bug DinerProduction Design
- 2023A Slippage in Five MovementsGaffer
- 2022Treasure HuntAdventurer #1
- 2022NonaSelf
- 2021If a Tree Falls in a ForestVoice
- 2021Playdate
- 2020Radium GirlsFrances
- 2020A Call to SpyExtra
- —Forking PathsProducer
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