Born in Montreal, Quebec, Woloshen first attended Vanier College, where he worked with Super-8 film and video.
[2] Working in camera-less animation since 1982, Woloshen has used scratches and lacerations on film to create emotional content.
Since 1999 Woloshen has worked exclusively in 35mm CinemaScope,[4] an oddity in the independent film world that is made possible by his otherwise thrifty means of production.
White scratches resembling rubbings, chalk drawings or electronic static jitter across a black background, matched to the driving beat of a techno music piece.
The deep, masculine sound of a tuba appears in blocky shapes of colour, contrasted with delicate white squiggles corresponding to a woman singing.
The Babble on Palms features various found-footage scenes of everyday life, accompanied by music by Ali Akbar Khan.
Set against a 1939 Chinese recording, “Parting at Yang Kwan,” Two Eastern Hair Lines is full of longing.