PERF DANCE: Steven Woloshen returns to London Animation Club
Image: Perf Dance (2026)
7.30 pm on Monday 20th July at the Green Man, 36 Riding House Street, London W1W 7EP
London Animation Club welcomes our special guest, multi-award-winning Canadian animator Steven Woloshen, who will be screening two new pieces, Perf Dance and Parallel Lands. Steven is an internationally-recognised figure and a champion of the camera-less film, whose work is both deeply experimental and accessible.
Steven Woloshen and Emma Calder at London Animation Club, July 2016
Steven last visited London Animation Club ten years ago, in July 2016, where he demonstrated his drawing on film techniques and signed copies of his book Scratch, Crackle & Pop!: A Whole Grains Approach to Making Films Without a Camera.
Here is a biography of Steven’s taken from lightcone.org:
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. 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, 2015 Wiesbaden Lifetime Achievement Award. Woloshen 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.
