Steven Woloshen

Who is Steven Woloshen?

Steven Woloshen is a film animator and a pioneer of drawn-on-film animation.

Woloshen first attended Vanier College, where he worked with Super-8 film and video, then specialized in 16 mm independent film techniques at Concordia University in Montreal. He has since created animated and experimental films, which have been shown at screenings and festivals around the world.

Working in camera-less animation since 1982, Woloshen has used scratches and lacerations on film to create emotional content.

Woloshen is a Montreal-based camera less animator who has been making films since the late ‘70’s. He studied film at Concordia University, where he initially made documentaries and collage films, but the freedom and accessibility of scratch animation won him over. Since 1999 he has worked exclusively in 35mm CinemaScope, an oddity in the independent film world that is made possible by his otherwise thrifty means of production. His works have screened worldwide at festivals including the Montreal World Film Festival, Tampere International Short Film Festival, Annecy Animated Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, and I Castelli Animati in Rome.