Zillah Rauter

Zillah is a London-based director and photographer working across narrative-driven music videos, documentary and experimental mixed media. Her work is both bold and sensitive, usually centred around human connection, and expanded through music, movement and stylised imagery.

She draws inspiration from mundane everyday moments that unexpectedly sparkle and hold a million stories within. Her work is rooted in reality, yet surreal and dreamy.

After graduating with a degree in journalism from the University of the Arts London, Zillah went on to focus on using photography as her primary tool of expression, influencing her observant cinematic style. Over time, her desire to give a more three-dimensional voice to her subjects led her to the expansive world of film. Being untethered to a specific medium or storytelling tradition, her work is unbounded and characterised by a bold visual and narrative style.In 2025, she made her directorial debut with “Kamouflage”, a portrait of identity and loss through the life of protagonist Fudge. She then directed the music video for Iona Zajac’s ‘Murder Mystery’, a surrealist, narrative-led film which again explored the nuanced harmony of the beautiful and ugly. Her ongoing multimedia project ‘Mothers’ Shame’ tackles the unspoken complexities created by female familial relationships in a patriarchal world.