Samuael Topiary (aka S Topiary Landberg) is a multimedia artist, podcaster, writer, and educator born in NYC and raised in suburban NJ. Her research focuses on documentary and experimental media related to queer history, the urban landscape, archives, and the environment.

Her work has been presented in theaters, art galleries, and museums including at Southern Exposure, Threadwaxing Space, the Lab, Abrons Arts Center, Dixon Place, PS122, the Oakland Museum of California, and in many film festivals across the US and abroad including Frameline, Image+Nation, the New York Video Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, MIX/NYC, MIX/Brasil, The New Fest, Paris Lesbian Film Festival, and Vancouver Underground Film Festival. In the ‘90s, Topiary toured with Sister Spit. She is the recipient of a MacDowell fellowship, an MFA in Film/Video from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and a a theory/practice PhD in Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.