George Eastman House retrospective

he 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 more than thirty years. 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.