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Sit back and enjoy 4 minutes of direct animation - Casino by steven Woloshen
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The Short and the Sweet!
The Short and the Sweet! Indeed!
On the 11th of February, 2018 I am honoured to present a collection of my short, animated experimental films at the Cinematheque français. After the workshop, I’ll lead a practical workshop for all those young, animators of the future. I hope you can join me. Here is the web link for further details: http://www.cinematheque.fr/seance/28443.html
A scratchatopia masterclass and screening in Budapest, Hungary.
Steven Woloshen 1960-ban született a kanadai Lavalban. Több mint harminc évvel ezelőtt kötelezte el magát a absztrakt filmek készítése mellett, továbbá számos időalapú installációt készített már fesztiválok, galériák és múzeumok részére. A filmkészítés mellett tanárként, filmrestaurátorként, animátorként és iparművészként is dolgozik, valamint két kötet szerzője. 2010-ben jelent meg a „Recipes for Reconstruction: The Cookbook for the Frugal Filmmaker” (Rekonstrukciós receptek: A takarékos filmkészítő szakácskönyve), amely olyan kézműves, analóg filmtechnikák gyakorlati kézikönyve, mint a filmnyersanyag bomlasztása és felújítása. 2015-ben látott napvilágot a „Scratch, Crackle & Pop! A Whole Grains Approach to Making Films without a Camera” (Krsz, ropp & pukk! A kamera nélküli filmkészítés átfogó módszertana). Scratchatopia („Karcotópia”) néven a világ számos országában tartott már retrospektív vetítést a munkáiból, valamint vezetett mesterkurzusokat és kézműves filmes műhelyeket, így hazáján, Kanadán túl eddig többek között Argentínában, Marokkóban, az USÁ-ban, Szlovéniában, Ausztráliában, Franciaországban, Nagy-Britanniában, Görögországban, Portugáliában, Spanyolországban, Szlovákiában, Lengyelországban és Mexikóban. Kétszer jelölték Kanadai Kormányzói díjra, eddigi munkássága során számos kutatói és alkotói ösztöndíjban részesült, legutóbb, 2015-ben megkapta a Wiesbaden Kulturális Életműdíjat, valamint 2016-ban az ismert kanadai filmes emlékére alapított René Jodoin életműdíjat.. A BABtérben egy Steven Woloshen által vezetett mesterkurzus és egy beszélgetéssel egybekötött vetítésen ismerhetjük meg a kanadai alkotó egyedi életművét. A mesterkurzus és a beszélgetés angol nyelven zajik! Program 15.30–16.45: Mesterkurzus 17.00–19.00: Válogatás Steven Woloshen filmjeiből és beszélgetés az alkotóval (moderátor: Lichter Péter filmrendező) PRIMANIMA masterclass with Steven Woloshen Steven Woloshen was born in Laval, Canada in 1960. For more than 30 years, he has passionately created over 50 award-winning, abstract films and time-based installations for festivals, galleries and museums. He is a teacher, film conservationist, animator, craftsman and the author of two books, “Recipes for Reconstruction: The Cookbook for the Frugal Filmmaker” (2010), a hands-on manual for decay, renewal and other handmade, analogue film techniques, and “Scratch, Crackle & Pop! A Whole Grains Approach to Making Films without a Camera” (2015). Under his own banner, Scratchatopia, Woloshen has hosted solo retrospectives and taught handmade filmmaking techniques at workshops and master classes in Argentina, Morocco, USA, Slovenia, Australia, France, Great Britain, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia, Poland, Mexico as well as across Canada. Twice nominated for Canada's Governor General's award, he has received numerous research and creation grants and, most recently, was awarded the 2016 René Jodoin lifetime achievement award, and 2015 Wiesbaden Lifetime Achievement Award. Program 15.30–16.45: Masterclass 17.00–19.00: Film selection of Steven Woloshen followed by a Q&A moderated by Péter Lichter film director
Photogram workshop - Mexico City 2016.
Cameras Take Five
Canada on screen: TIFF essential 150 films;
In an extraordinarily restless and productive 40-year career as an independent filmmaker, Montreal native Steven Woloshen has extended and advanced the legacy of direct animation pioneers such as Len Lye and Norman McLaren with his remarkable body of “cameraless” animations — that is, animation etched directly on to the film surface using inks, scratching, overlays and other treatments.
Music has often been a starting point for Woloshen’s work, and he has drawn on a wide range of sources, some of them fairly obscure. For Cameras Take Five, however, he chose a familiar and beloved jazz classic: Dave Brubeck’s recording of Paul Desmond’s “Take Five,” so named because it is composed in the uncommon 5/4 time. If, as Paul Klee put it, “a line is a dot that went for a walk,” in Cameras Take Five Woloshen takes two lines for a dance across the plane of the movie screen, where they come together, break apart, multiply, merge, and divide again. Woloshen’s handmade original, drawn on clear film, is used as the negative, so that the original tones and colours are reversed when the film is printed and then projected in the widescreen CinemaScope format.
In many respects this concise, elegant and joyful film marks the culmination of Woloshen’s work in “pure” cameraless animation. The birth of Woloshen’s children in the mid-2000s seems to have coincided with the artist’s turn toward what have been, at times, markedly less accessible films, though ones that nevertheless exhibit a searching intelligence and a willingness to experiment. The 2001 film The Babble on Palms, which combines found footage from a commercial film shoot with Woloshen’s direct animation, signalled this shift, and in recent years he has further broadened his range of methods to include microscopic imagery and other experimental and conceptual approaches.
In an extraordinarily restless and productive 40-year career as an independent filmmaker, Montreal native Steven Woloshen has extended and advanced the legacy of direct animation pioneers such as Len Lye and Norman McLaren with his remarkable body of “cameraless” animations.
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