Genres: experimental

  • Song of the Firefly

    “Song of the Firefly” is a visual poem which utilizes the camera-less photogram technique that was introduced in Pruska-Oldenhof’s 2001 film “Light Magic.” “Song of the Firefly” transports the viewer to an open field on a warm summer night, where the luminous dance of the fireflies can be experienced. The exhuberant display of light, as each flash illuminates different portions of the field, reveals fragments of the space in which we are contained, leaving us always waiting in anticipation to see more.

  • Manipulator

    A master brings out his slave and attempts to control him. Things go terribly wrong. Every touch of the slave produces a distortion that encompasses the master. Who exactly is the manipulator? The slave, the master, or the filmmaker?

  • grotesque

    A devil makes a violent attempt to change himself into a heavenly creature. His evil process backfires when he is confronted with the creatures from within.

  • BRU HA HA!

    “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 human kind. Homage to painter Joan Miro.

  • Airs

    This film rises out of my struggle to photograph the ephemeral qualities of varied air (as many Greek philosophers experienced such) and to arrange the resultant textures/tones of film (in sharp conjunction with images hard-edged as words can be) so that it be true as breath itself to the necessities of music.

  • Travelling Eye of the Blue Cat, The

    “The Travelling Eye of the Blue Cat” is a 16-minute, 35mm photo-collage animation . Using a surreal fairytale style, the film combines music and animation to tell the story of a girl awoken one morning by a mysterious seagull, which crashes against her bedroom window. Following the bird into an abandoned garden, the girl discovers the edge of the world. Perched on this edge is a single tree bearing a tangy red fruit, guarded by raucous birds. When the girl scares off the birds, and takes a bite of the fruit, she catapults herself into a startling, violent and extended…

  • Begin (Toxic 1)

    “Begin” uses hand-processing and collaged sound as an overture to life. The first in Saul’s “Toxic” film series, this chapter explores the way birth and death, life and decay interweave.

  • Thin Bleeding Walls

    Recounting the painful memory of a mother with a problem and a brother’s means of coping.

  • Japan: Kesei Line Single Take

    This film is part of an ongoing series of 16mm films simply called “Japan.” “Kesei Line Single Take” is a visual poem; its imagery (of passing Japanese landscape) is at times like that of Abstract Expressionist painting. This entire film is comprised of one take- there are no cuts, no camera moves, no exposure, focus, or shutter adjustments. “Absolutely captivating.” – Tor Lukasik-Foss, Art Gallery of Hamilton

  • Cinema and Visual Pleasure

    The film is constructed upon a short loop, extracted from an old 8mm burlesque film depicting a belly dancer moving against a black background. Her dance consists of little more than a series of languid, circular gestures. Her hips, elbows, wrists and stomach perpetuate endless circles each within their own orbits of motion. The image is black and white, scratched and grainy, and further complicated by the orange bubbles of nitrate decay that speckle the emulsion’s surface. The loop is expanded across the film’s duration through repetition and multiple superimpositions. The film is an exercise in the plastic properties of…