Steven Woloshen

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

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.

"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."

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

A visual reinterpretation of dance and animated found footage.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

My daughter's expression for beautiful sunset.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

"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

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.

Just as her life is coming together, Allison experiences a terrible tragedy when her boyfriend is murdered by an intruder from whom the woman herself barely escapes. The police capture a man they believe to be the killer, but Allison, still unsettled, has her doubts. Things take a frightening turn when she meets her friend's new boyfriend and suspects him to be the killer.

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.

Found footage film of a man dismounting a horse.

Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashed because a defective part, a C-ring, has been made of a weaker, less expensive alloy. Before Rob can go public with this, Rob is killed on the orders of corrupt General Howard, who did not want Rob to go public with the defective part. Howard believes that Barbara, who is also a marine, now has the part, so Howard and his henchmen set out to kill Barbara and Johnny and get the part, but Howard is underestimating what Barbara is willing to do to protect Johnny.

Light - Movement - Time - Memory - Joy

An archeological journey into light and time.

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

Amanda, a brilliant aeronautical engineer, is enraged when her breakthrough design is stolen and patented by her colleague Brendan. When he is found murdered, she becomes the prime suspect and soon finds she is not only fighting for her design - but fight for her life - as someone out there is determined to silence her protest for good.

Amelia's blog empowering women not to tolerate violent relationships has brought her fame, fortune and now someone is out to kill her. Is it the new man in her life, her now paroled ex who inspired the blog, or a deranged fan? Just as she has put the pieces of her life back together, Amelia must figure out who is behind the bizarre string of attacks and stop them before her own life comes to an ironic and violent end.

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".

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.

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.

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

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.

A woman is stalked by a psychopathic killer. She eventually kills him, only for the man to show up again, this time sane and without any knowledge of the attacks. The police don't believe her, but one detective agrees to look into it.

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.

Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.