As part of MUFF’s 2013 opening night program, My short film, Frobisher Bay will offer a glimpse into the permanence of nature – in contrast to the transience of man-made ideals and ambitions.

I created “Minuet” in 2003 as part of The Images Film Festival’s commission series, “Minute Movies.” ENJOY!!

The 2013 Film factory at Main Film, Montreal.
Steven Woloshen (filmmaker):
For The Mountains and the Sea, an exploration of images of decayed film prints utilizing a 35mm optical printer. -Main Film press release, April 9th, 2013

 A still from “zero visibility” (2009)

EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA v8.53

Experiments in Cinema is always interested in curators who view moving

image art from a particularly unique perspective.Program curated by Caryn Cline.

The Indiegogo campaign to finance “Scratch, Crackle and Pop” has begun. Here is the contribution link: http://igg.me/at/scp

I anticipate the first edition by December of 2014.

This weekend, the 2013 Animac International Animation in Catalonia, Spain is featuring “Free Speech,” the short film  I made in 2012 to free jailed Iranian filmmaker, Jafar Panahi.

Here is the description of the event:

Steven Woloshen is a pioneer of camera-less animation, which includes painting, scratching and drawing directly on film. Based in Montreal, he has been making films since the 1970s, specializing in 16mm film production while studying at Concordia University. His films have been screened internationally at festivals including Winnipeg’s Festival of Film and Video Art, the Montreal Underground Film Festival, the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and I Castelli Animati in Rome. 

His work is often inspired by jazz, with improvisation and chance playing a large part in the creative process. His film “Cameras Take Five” (2003) inspired by Dave Brubeck, received the Best Non-Narrative Short Film award at the International Animated Film Festival in Ariccia, Italy, and was featured in the Animated Show of Shows, a travelling program of the year’s best international animated short films. His work is also featured in The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema, an anthology of animation edited by Chris Gehman and Steve Reinke, co-published by YYZ Books, the Ottawa Animation Festival, and the Images Festival. 

Woloshen will attend this screening, his first in London, Ontario, and will lead a workshop in camera-less animation for Western University students on Friday March 8 from 10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. at the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, room 302. 

We thank the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Department of Film Studies, Arts & Humanities Students’ Council, and University Students’ Council for their financial support of this program, which has been organized by the Western Undergraduate Film Society and McIntosh Gallery. 

For more information, contact Jesse Brossoit, program curator, at jbrossoi@uwo.ca 

This is a still from my 2009 short film, “Editorial.” I doesn’t seem to get out in the world these days, but in Melbourne, Australia, the Artist Film Workshop has curated an screening works on working and re-working film loops. I hope you can make it.

The Ambulantito section […] will focus this year on the magic and illusion of film with a program of short films (documentaries and animations) directed primarily at children, adolescents, and young adults. In the words of Mara Fortes, “a factory of dreams, fantasies, stories, and immaterial worlds, the theater has delighted us with its capability to reconfigure time and space. This program explores a century of alchemical transformations and the subliminal power of the moving image. From the imaginative short films of Segundo de Chomón and Buster Keaton to the contemporary visually fascinating animations, this is cinema in its most visionary form.” - quote from the program notes of the Ambulante festival from Mexico. Keep your open for my short film, “Fiesta Brava” which will screen in this section.

***Ambulante Film Festival will travel to eleven states from February 8^th to May 9^th in 2013: Mexico City (February 8-21), Guerrero (February 22-28),Puebla (March 1-7), Veracruz (March 8-14), Baja California (March 15-21), Nuevo León (March 29 –April 4), Coahuila (April 5-11), Jalisco (April 12-18), Michoacán (April 19-25), Chiapas (April 26 – May 2) y Oaxaca (May 3-9). There will also be an extensionof various presentations in Puerto Escondido from May 10^th to 12^th.

ICPCE has arranged a screening in the city of Stockholm, Sweden,  titled “Refractions in Canadian Experimental Cinema.” Please check the program at the Fylkingen Cinema on Feb 8, 2013. 

“Where the Sidewalk Ends,” the short film directed by Alexandra Grimanis and Steven Woloshen by have its world debut at Toronto’s 2013 8 Fest on Feb. 9th at 7:00 pm.

MASTER CLASS Montreal, Dec, 2012 Thanks to Videographe for recording this fun masterclass.