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’s progressed through numerous forms including painting, drawing and collaging on film, Rotoscope, stop motion and Pixilation. Her sound work employs Musique concrète, sound collage, altered instruments, field recording and synthesized sound.

In many of her recent films Kamentsky focuses on her body as subject matter. Approaching her sixth decade, her films explore aging, queer identity, testing physical limitations and exploring how movement reflects a sense of self.

Sound is central to determining structure in her films. She begins the sound process by gathering found spoken elements, creating field recordings and creating sound intuitively in studio. In the editing stage, rather than matching sound and image, Kamentsky incorporates inappropriate sound and random syncing to create unexpected and ambiguous meaning.

She has exhibited her work at major festivals worldwide and has had retrospectives an the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival and the Tricky Woman Animation Festival in Vienna. In 2025 she was awarded the Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award for her film “Dead Name”.

KINETIC SCULPTURE

Gina started creating kinetic sculpture under the moniker “Mechanical Confections” in the early 90s continuing to 2016 where she made the decision to concentrate primarily on film and animation work.