Sam Gurry

Directing

Sam Gurry

Sam Gurry is an interdisciplinary artist living in Los Angeles working primarily in the moving image. Their films untether the restrictions between documentary, animation, and imagined realities. Sam’s work has been in the official selection at the TIFF, SXSW, Slamdance, IFFR, and Ottawa Animation Festival amongst others. Sam holds an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Winners Bitch poster
NR

Virginia Hampton was an all breed American Kennel Club judge. She was instrumental in getting the Akita recognized, specialized in working dogs, and was a doting mother to 3 sons. Two of those things are lies, depending on who you ask.

Winners Bitch

2018

Winners Bitch poster
NR

Virginia Hampton was an all breed American Kennel Club judge. She was instrumental in getting the Akita recognized, specialized in working dogs, and was a doting mother to 3 sons. Two of those things are lies, depending on who you ask.

Winners Bitch

2018

Up Close poster
NR

Hold me like an amphitheater, I need space to stretch my longing. Touch starved and hell bent, an exhale of earthly hungers.

Up Close

2022

gutterball poster
7.0

Created with a deck of LPBA Strike Force trading cards from 1991.

gutterball

2016

jim poster
NR

jim is an exploration-based portrait of a found object. Jim assembled these floppy disks in the late 1990s with images and samples sourced from online chat rooms. How do you connect with someone you can’t see? That you don’t know? Can you get a sunburn from a computer screen? One short email conversation provides his name.

jim

2017

The Biggest Wad is Mine poster
6.7

Junior High is one sticky situation.

The Biggest Wad is Mine

2016

Britney Spears: Diaries, Notes, & Sketches poster
NR

"It’s about nothing, about everything, it’s about life." - Jonas Mekas "Every time I try to fly I fall without my wings, I feel so small" - Britney Spears Animated fanzine. All frames were printed on a copy machine, hand processed, and rephotographed.

Britney Spears: Diaries, Notes, & Sketches

2024

Azealia Banks, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles poster
NR

"Diamonds and dreams come true for girls like me" - Azealia Banks.

Azealia Banks, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

2024

Reddish Brown and Blueish Green poster
NR

Using a found object as a catalyst, Reddish Brown and Blueish Green explores a family's destructive journey through childhood. Much of the imagery in the film comes from a baby book found on a curb in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Inside the mother chronicles her son's life, as well as her own struggle with addiction, ending abruptly around the child's 4th birthday.

Reddish Brown and Blueish Green

2011