ANALOGICA SELECTION 15 - 2025

THE INSTABILITY OF CLOUDS
by Zazie Ray-Trapido
16mm / 2024 / USA / 15’
THE INSTABILITY OF CLOUDS by Zazie Ray-Trapido
Two neighbors bond after a shared traumatic event, continuous home developments creep into nature's threshold, and a community celebrates freedom.
The Instability of Clouds navigates a su burban ecosystem in decay and growth while traversing its spaces of comfort, spectacle, and disaster.
Through observing and constructing facets within a suburban neighborhood in Southern California, connections between landscape, neighbors, and environment ruminate on the American Dream and its resonances.
Zazie Ray-Trapido is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her films expand on traditional documentary and narrative formats, engaging with analog film techniques, archives, and performance.
Her work has been screened at festivals worldwide, including the New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Viennale, RIDM, among others. She holds a BFA from Bard College and an MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts.