Gina Kamentsky
Directing
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

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

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

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

“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
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
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

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

An escaped laboratory rat navigates through a sea of punctuation.
Trauma Chameleon

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

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

The elemental essence contained in the brutal ballet of contact sport reconfigured for a different audience.
Spank Shot
Her hair was soft, soft and white like a puppy.
Soft and White
"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

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

Drawn on and inspired by found subtitled footage.
If you SAY something SEE something

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

My dead name is trying to kill me!
Dead Name

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