Steven Woloshen

Director Carrie Haber delves deep into the anxiety, thrill and uncertainty of six aspiring animation artists as they are plunged into the twelve-week trial-by-fire that is the NFB's Hothouse for animation filmmakers.

A dead woman wanders through the shadowy space between memory and reality, tracing the lines of her identity through the land she once walked—an immigrant in death as in life.

With the aid of usb microscopes and X-ray scanners, this is the first of many test films, peering into the surface structure of decayed and rotted 35 mm celluloid film. Thank you Brian Eno for the music.

Joy, vitality, and a steampunk organ. A perfect recipe for direct cinema. Organic was created with the ancient mariner’s technique called scrimshaw. This film was originally commissioned for the closing ceremonies of the 2019 Annecy International Animation Festival.

Sometimes, rifts between us are as wide as rivers, and sometimes, as small as hair lines. Using bleaching and painting techniques on found footage, “Two Eastern Hair Lines” explores communication, conflict and isolation.

The cycle of sex, birth, fire and childhood. Will my child repeat this cycle, or invent a new one?

A dead woman wanders through the shadowy space between memory and reality, tracing the lines of her identity through the land she once walked—an immigrant in death as in life.

With the aid of usb microscopes and X-ray scanners, this is the first of many test films, peering into the surface structure of decayed and rotted 35 mm celluloid film. Thank you Brian Eno for the music.

With the aid of usb microscopes and X-ray scanners, this is the first of many test films, peering into the surface structure of decayed and rotted 35 mm celluloid film. Thank you Brian Eno for the music.

Joy, vitality, and a steampunk organ. A perfect recipe for direct cinema. Organic was created with the ancient mariner’s technique called scrimshaw. This film was originally commissioned for the closing ceremonies of the 2019 Annecy International Animation Festival.

Joy, vitality, and a steampunk organ. A perfect recipe for direct cinema. Organic was created with the ancient mariner’s technique called scrimshaw. This film was originally commissioned for the closing ceremonies of the 2019 Annecy International Animation Festival.

Sometimes, rifts between us are as wide as rivers, and sometimes, as small as hair lines. Using bleaching and painting techniques on found footage, “Two Eastern Hair Lines” explores communication, conflict and isolation.

The cycle of sex, birth, fire and childhood. Will my child repeat this cycle, or invent a new one?

Combining celluliod manipulation techniques with footage of swimmers, this experimental short work is an ode to light, movement, time, memory, and joy.

Unlike television comedies, many of our family conversations don't make sense, but when my Father talks, we struggle to understand.

My daughter's expression for beautiful sunset.

This lush and vibrant animation combines found footage, scratch and inking techniques. A fine demonstration of individual experience within the common world.

This lush and vibrant animation combines found footage, scratch and inking techniques. A fine demonstration of individual experience within the common world.

An archeological journey into light and time.

When all the voices have been silenced, only one will remain. And when this last voice is no longer heard...

The enduring romance of the lines. A visual exploration of Dave Brubeck's jazz classic "Take Five".

Jack MacDonald painted in both worlds: figurative and the abstract. Playtime pays homage to his dedication, spirit and wonderful subject matter—both real and imaginary.

Striking colors and rhythmic energy imbue a pulsing, manic vitality to this animated-on-film, dialogue-free short in which Woloshen seeks to capture the fleeting details of action around a casino the fleeting details of action around a casino as an ode to his late father, "who gambled with love".

A visual reinterpretation of dance and animated found footage.

The bull fights are over. Now the bulls invite you to the world's biggest party.

An essay in colour harmonics and visual overtones. Conceived and produced as part of the Images Film Festival's Minute Movies.

In Barthes' essay, "The Grain of the Voice", the concept of the "genosong" was evoked to separate the sound of the voice from its language. Visual Music for Ten Voices distinguishes the physicality of the optical vocal track as having a unique identity from its actual resonance in sound films. Designed as a 10-foot black box projection loop, this film focuses on the rhythm and materiality of ten 35mm optical soundtracks. Each musical passage maintains its original length and linear harmony with the other tracks, collectively creating a new sense of motion and repetition.

"In the summer of 2008 my father butted heads with hospital bureaucracy. Using found footage loops, mechanized sounds and photograms, EDITORIAL tells the story of redundancy, repetition and fighting for your life." Steven Woloshen

A subtle little narrative; an abstracted interlude between sound and silence, motion and stability, and light and darkness.

Penned under the alias Luther Cartier; an abstract "rebuttal" to J.P. Morton's (aka Bill Plympton) mock abstract film Spiral.

Made entirely in the front seat of a car with simple art tools direct to film, this handmade short celebrates the joy of Montréal road maps, travel and jazz music.

Erosion is a symbol of change and regeneration in the land. The Homestead Act, based on the United States Federal law that gave an applicant freehold title to 160 acres of undeveloped land, is a short experimental film about erosion and the results of decay.

Shards of film fly from the screen with the frenetic sounds of Fats Waller on the piano.

A short film about love and loss and the Matabeleland tribe of Southern Rhodesia.

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Found footage film of a man dismounting a horse.

An experimental animation that recalls a treacherious, winter journey across a Montréal landmark.

"Created as a silent, large-scale installation for public spaces, National Tapestry draws our focus to the weft and the warp of the woven image. The materiality of a distressed patriotic symbol echoes the struggles and ambitions of a culture, land and history that are both loved and despised by many. This is Steven Woloshen’s first film exploring ethnology and politics in film."

Bru Ha Ha. An overexcited and noisy response; a commotion; a hubbub or an uproar. Bru Ha Ha. A short hand-scratched film by Steven Woloshen. A film about relationships of the inhuman kind.

Thoughts, visions and reflections from the driver's seat.

In 1914, a man abandoned his horse and escaped the impending disaster that loomed overhead. Man, horse and barn. They are all either dead or destroyed. But they live forever.

Juju African Sacred music provides the trip through the handmade graphic jungle of hand lettering.

A toe-tapping, swinging, sensational handmade animation, illustrating the music of Benny Goodman.

Ditty Dot Comma is a hand-painted, wide screen 35mm film that honours the relationship between the eye and the ear. The dot and the comma, literary punctuation marks, are also used as symbols and designs.

Frame by frame, we see abstract, hand-painted images tussle with scraps of photographic representation. Which will win? Woloshen crafts a cascade of visuals in the manner of Stan Brakhage: scratches on the celluloid, sprocket holes, fleeting geometric shapes are glimpsed for a split-second before being snatched away. Intermingled are flashes of heavily erased faces and places, occasionally bursting through into visibility. Cinema is the sum of this endless struggle. – Adrian Martin

I think my daughter is a puzzle. Just when I thought everything was okay, the chicken pox struck...