The Phantasmagorical Worlds of Steven Woloshen

Pepper Steak (1984, 3 min., 16mm), Get Happy! (1999, 3 min.), Ditty Dot Comma (2001, 3 min.), Cameras Take Five (2003, 3 min.), Snip (2004, 2 min.), Playtime (2009, 3 min.), Fiesta Brava (2011, 4 min.), Free Speech (2012, 1 min., DCP), The Homestead Act (2009, 8 min., DCP), Crossing Victoria (2013, 4 min., DCP), Shimmer Box Drive (2007, 4 min., DCP), 1000 Plateaus (2014, 3 min., DCP), The Babble on Palms (2002, 4 min.), BRU HA HA! (2002, 2 min.), Two Eastern Hair Lines (2004, 4 min.), Phont Cycle (2006, 4 min.), La Dolce Vita (2008, 2 min.), The Curse of the Voodoo Child (2005, 3 min.), Changing Evan (2006, 1 min.), Optical Itzak (2008, 3 min, DCP), Casino (2016, 4 min., DCP) (all dir. Steven Woloshen, Canada; all 35mm unless noted)

The Phantasmagorical Worlds of Steven Woloshen | Filmmaker in Person. Montreal-based independent filmmaker Steven Woloshen has been passionately creating cameraless, handmade abstract films and time-based installations for the past three decades. Woloshen has been a lecturer, juror, technician, animator, craftsman, and recently, the author of Recipes for Reconstruction, a manual for decay, renewal, and other analogue film techniques. Most recently, Woloshen received the prestigious René Jodoin Award for outstanding lifetime achievement in animation at the 2016 Sommets du cinéma d’animation festival in Montreal. Discussion with Steven Woloshen will follow.

The Phantasmagorical Worlds of Steven Woloshen is the first edition of a new bimonthly animation series, a collaboration between the George Eastman Museum and the School of Film and Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology.