
Directing
Gina Kamentsky
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Directing
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Gina Kamentsky is an animator, kinetic sculptor and sound artist based in Providence, Rhode Island. Her anxious and joyful short films blast out at twenty-four frames per second, searing eyeballs and sending waves of buzz and crackle into the ether. Over her three-decade career, she’s progressed through numerous forms including painting, drawing and collaging on film, Rotoscope, Musique concrète, sound collage, stop motion and Pixilation. Kamentsky’s films have screened at festivals nationally and worldwide.
Known for
Patrick Haggerty grew up the son of a dairy farmer in rural Dry Creek, Washington, during the 1950s. As a teenager, Pat began to understand he was gay—something he thought he was hiding well. But one day, after performing at a school assembly, Pat learned that his father could see him much more clearly than he realized.
The Saint of Dry Creek
2015
NRA young boy's creative mind gets him into trouble, until he begins to apply that creativity to life-changing inventions, including the traffic signal.
Garrett's Gift
2008
NRI don't know much about truth but I do know how to obey. And that's what I love to do; kiss ass, roll over, play dead.
Roll Over and Play Dead
2026
NRIn a magical take on a true story, a slave mails himself from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia in 1848.
Henry Box Brown
2008
NRMy dead name is trying to kill me!
Dead Name
2025
NRThink of a small dot in space. Experimental animated film; ink and paint on found 35mm movie trailers.
Tracheal Shave
2016
Film credits
Behind the camera
Patrick Haggerty grew up the son of a dairy farmer in rural Dry Creek, Washington, during the 1950s. As a teenager, Pat began to understand he was gay—something he thought he was hiding well. But one day, after performing at a school assembly, Pat learned that his father could see him much more clearly than he realized.
The Saint of Dry Creek
2015
NRA young boy's creative mind gets him into trouble, until he begins to apply that creativity to life-changing inventions, including the traffic signal.
Garrett's Gift
2008
NRI don't know much about truth but I do know how to obey. And that's what I love to do; kiss ass, roll over, play dead.
Roll Over and Play Dead
2026
NRIn a magical take on a true story, a slave mails himself from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia in 1848.
Henry Box Brown
2008
NRMy dead name is trying to kill me!
Dead Name
2025
NRThink of a small dot in space. Experimental animated film; ink and paint on found 35mm movie trailers.
Tracheal Shave
2016
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been instructed by the Trump administration to pause or retract any periodical or journal article that references specific LGBT topics, with agency staff allegedly being provided a list of words that must be removed from all publications.
404
2026
NRThe elemental essence contained in the brutal ballet of contact sport reconfigured for a different audience.
Spank Shot
2016
NRAn escaped laboratory rat navigates through a sea of punctuation.
Trauma Chameleon
2020
NRGo ahead and torture yourself, if that’s what you want.
Stunting Cunts
2019
I ate a garden of Thistles and kissed a Bee.
Rock Paper Thistle
2019
NRA magical place where rocking ponies are left to rust.
Pony Henge
2022
NRJiro has a dream about the artist formerly known as Prince and visits the dentist with his friend the lighthouse phone man. There is sushi along the way.
Jiro Visits the Dentist
2014
Peg leg man dreams of a burlesque queen. There are crash tests, many dogs and a pie.
Give Me a Pie
2013
“Is the night Blue”, a cut and paste audio assemblage by The Tape-beatles and several hundred feet of cast off movie trailers are the starting points for House Bunny.
House Bunny
2010
NR“Magnet draw day from dark. Sun zoom spark. Sun zoom spark”, Captain Beefheart.
Sun Zoom Spark
2019
Secret Bee ventures toward the sweet honey- spot where representation and surface push and pull each other like a two-headed lama. Film footage was produced frame by frame, painting and drawing directly on found film stock resulting in a cavalcade of color and image. Secret Bee features a super twisted piece of music “A Drink on Spike Jones” by Sonic de/constructor extraordinaire Dave Phillips.
Secret Bee
2011
NRHigh energy, freestyle jazz scatting skips along to an equally riotous visual dance that effortlessly merges abstract and classic cartoonism. Brilliant.
Cupcake
2017
NRDrawn on and inspired by found subtitled footage.
If you SAY something SEE something
2016
NR“A journey around an abandoned grain silo outside the animators studio.” Experimental animated film; ink and paint on found 70mm film, collaged 35 and 16mm film on surface.
Silo
2017
NR“A journey around an abandoned grain silo outside the animators studio.” Experimental animated film; ink and paint on found 70mm film, collaged 35 and 16mm film on surface.
Silo
2017
Created by cutting up sequences from 35 and 70mm trailers and projecting them onto movable screens and walls of the studio. Our goal was to create a world that looks like 3D motion graphics without using 3D digital techniques.
Universe Moves So Fast
2024
6.0Pinocchio felt a longing deep within him. Someday, he would become a real girl and live a life beyond the confines of make-believe.
Gina Kamentsky's Pinocchio in 70MM
2024
"Pisces have big feet and big hands!" The filmmaker and her mom talk about feet, her mom does most of the talking. Experimental animated documentary.
Foot Print Shop
2023
I didn't ask for Anchovies on this
Anchovy
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NRKools are smoked in the yellow house and the Ukrainian drinks tea but who owns the Zebra? An adaptation of a classic logic puzzle allegedly written by a young Albert Einstein.
Einstein's Riddle
2007
NRHome alone on a sunny afternoon: a perfect time for frolicking in the garden.
Sed Saepe Cadendo
2021
Her hair was soft, soft and white like a puppy.
Soft and White
2020
