Hi, I’m Sam Gurry. I’m a filmmaker, curator, and one of the minds behind 24memespersecond, where we post memes about sand, the animated canon, and things that aren’t technically animation but spiritually absolutely are. (You ever run past a fence real fast?)

I like weird animation. I make weird animation. And I talk about it too hehe on Smear Frame, my podcast dedicated to independent animation and the people who obsess over it. It’s interviews, musings, and deep dives into the history, the artists, the disasters, the masterpieces. The love. The frame rate. The part of you that draws until 3am for a joke only five people will get and only two will laugh at.

I’ve taught Animation History and production classes across California for the past several years. I’ve worked across both experimental and industry spaces. And I launched this show because I wanted animators to talk like real people. Animation is a unique, cool, diverse art form and I don’t care about your production calendar (but I do want you to finish your film and then send it to me).

Smear Frame is recorded in California. It’s got a DIY heart and dirty fingers touching cels, inspired by the 1970s series The Screening Room, and every artist who ever made something beautiful out of scraps, trash, or spite.

Not a genre.

It’s animation, babe.

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