IN PERSON: Gina Kamentsky
IN PERSON aims to showcase exceptional positions within the animation landscape and to provide insights into both the creative and technical explorations and the working methods of selected animation artists. With this program, Tricky Women Tricky Realities highlights artists whose bodies of work span a long period of time, exploring, shaping, and challenging the possibilities of animation.
The 2025 IN PERSON program of Tricky Women Tricky Realities is dedicated to Gina Kamentsky.
Gina Kamentsky is an experimental animator 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 has progressed through numerous forms and techniques, including painting, drawing and collaging on film, Rotoscope, Musique concrète, sound collage, stop motion, and pixilation. Her films have screened at festivals nationally and worldwide, including the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Animator Festival in Poznań, Poland.
This program will show 19 films by Gina Kamentsky. Here is a small preview what to expect. Please note: The detailed festival program with all the info where to get your tickets will be published on 19th february. Stay tuned!
TRAUMA CHAMELEON
Gina Kamentsky, 2019, US, 3 minutes An Escaped Laboratory Rat Navigates Through a Sea of Punctuation. The starting point for Trauma Chameleon is a soundtrack mashup of a LibriVox recording of “How to Speak and Write Correctly” by Joseph Devlin written in 1910. The film explores a nervous breakdown of image and language.
SOFT AND WHITE
Gina Kamentsky, 2021, US, 3 minutes The filmmaker assumes a new identity after a mysterious bird flies into her studio during lockdown. Soft and White features a soundtrack mashup from audio book recordings including “One Martian Afternoon” by Tom Leahy.
FOOT PRINT SHOP
Gina Kamentsky, 2022, US, 4 minutes “Pisces have big feet and big hands!" The filmmaker and her mom talk about feet, her mom does most of the talking.
GINA KAMENTSKY’S PINOCCHIO IN 70MM
Gina Kamentsky, 2024, US, 3 minutes Familiar figures emerge in a frantic rhythm - a whale, a donkey, and a figure with an ever-growing nose. Deep within, Pinocchio felt a yearning. One day, he would become a real girl and live a life beyond the confines of make-believe.
DEAD NAME
Gina Kamentsky, 2025, US, 5 minutes World Premiere