
Zazie Ray-Trapido
- Known for
- Directing
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
- Forking Paths
Forking Paths TBA
Producer

Tropical Fractals 2026
Art Direction, Associate Producer, Assistant Editor

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub 2026
Executive Producer

Travelers' Suite 2026
Actor

Survival Without Rent 2025
Producer

How to Live Together 2025
Second Assistant Camera

Language Decay 2025
Director, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography

When We Encounter the World 2024
as Voice, Director, Editor, Producer, Sound, Director of Photography, Writer

The Instability of Clouds 2024
Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor

Bug Diner 2024
Production Design

A Slippage in Five Movements 2023
Gaffer

Treasure Hunt 2022
as Adventurer #1, Director, Cinematography

Nona 2022
as Self, Director, Cinematography, Editor

If a Tree Falls in a Forest 2021
as Voice

Playdate 2021
Actor, Editor, Sound, Director, Cinematography

Radium Girls 2020
as Frances

A Call to Spy 2020
as Extra
Credits from TMDB.