Gina Kamentsky

Directing

Gina Kamentsky

Known for

Directing

Credits

29 titles

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

Film credits

Behind the camera

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4.5

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

Garrett's Gift poster
NR

A 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

Roll Over and Play Dead poster
NR

I 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

Henry Box Brown poster
NR

In 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

Dead Name poster
NR

My dead name is trying to kill me!

Dead Name

2025

Tracheal Shave poster
NR

Think of a small dot in space. Experimental animated film; ink and paint on found 35mm movie trailers.

Tracheal Shave

2016

No artwork available
NR

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

Spank Shot poster
NR

The elemental essence contained in the brutal ballet of contact sport reconfigured for a different audience.

Spank Shot

2016

Trauma Chameleon poster
NR

An escaped laboratory rat navigates through a sea of punctuation.

Trauma Chameleon

2020

Stunting Cunts poster
NR

Go ahead and torture yourself, if that’s what you want.

Stunting Cunts

2019

No artwork available
NR

I ate a garden of Thistles and kissed a Bee.

Rock Paper Thistle

2019

Pony Henge poster
NR

A magical place where rocking ponies are left to rust.

Pony Henge

2022

Jiro Visits the Dentist poster
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Jiro 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

No artwork available
NR

Peg leg man dreams of a burlesque queen. There are crash tests, many dogs and a pie.

Give Me a Pie

2013

No artwork available
NR

“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

Sun Zoom Spark poster
NR

“Magnet draw day from dark. Sun zoom spark. Sun zoom spark”, Captain Beefheart.

Sun Zoom Spark

2019

No artwork available
NR

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

Cupcake poster
NR

High energy, freestyle jazz scatting skips along to an equally riotous visual dance that effortlessly merges abstract and classic cartoonism. Brilliant.

Cupcake

2017

If you SAY something SEE something poster
NR

Drawn on and inspired by found subtitled footage.

If you SAY something SEE something

2016

Silo poster
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

Silo poster
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

No artwork available
NR

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

Gina Kamentsky's Pinocchio in 70MM poster
6.0

Pinocchio 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

No artwork available
NR

"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

No artwork available
NR

I didn't ask for Anchovies on this

Anchovy

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Einstein's Riddle poster
NR

Kools 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

Sed Saepe Cadendo poster
NR

Home alone on a sunny afternoon: a perfect time for frolicking in the garden.

Sed Saepe Cadendo

2021

No artwork available
NR

Her hair was soft, soft and white like a puppy.

Soft and White

2020