Sam Gurry is an interdisciplinary filmmaker living in Los Angeles. They view animation as a seductive series of images, each one an opportunity to reimagine our world. By utilizing domestic objects and heightened ephemera, their work showcases tactility at its core, both of the matter and of the spirit. Their films untether restrictions between documentary, animation, and imagined realities.

Their films have been in the official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival, SXSW, Slamdance, Ann Arbor, IFFR, and the Ottawa International Animation Festival amongst others.

Sam has an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts.

They are currently adjunct faculty at California State University, Los Angeles, NYU, and USC teaching experimental animation studio classes and Animation History.

When not filmmaking, Sam curates programs of experimental film around the world. In 2022, they joined the programming board of LA Filmforum.

Selected Press

Mostly Moving - Interview & Essay, 2019
Ann Arbor Film Festival Interview, 2019
Bust Magazine - 8 Up-And-Coming Animators To Watch, 2018
Girl Trip - Interview, 2016

samgurry @ gmail.com