2017 | 1 min | USA

In third grade, I joined a bowling league. I ate a lot of cheese fries.

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 own social understandings of the interpersonal. 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 the liminal restrictions between documentary, animation, and imagined realities.

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

Sam holds an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts. They are currently an assistant professor at California State University, Los Angeles and lecturer at New York University.