Growing up in Princeton NJ, Pollock began making backyard Super 8 films together with future director Mitchell Lichtenstein.
As a teen, he attended art house screenings at Princeton University, a precocious introduction to the cinema of Antonioni, Kubrick, & Fellini. It also was in Princeton that he witnessed the burgeoning pop art movement; developments which were the genesis of Pollock’s multifaceted pursuits as an artist.
Moving to NY, Pollock enrolled in SVA where he studied video under Shigeko Kubota and film theory with Joan Braderman. Also as a student, he staged multimedia events like Cold War Zeitgeist at the Mudd Club (1978) mentioned in several books about the era.
In 1983 Pollock documented film director Hiroshi Teshigahara’s lecture tour of India and spent time in Japan.
In 1985 he co-directed the sarc MTV-style music video Space Party, featuring actress Ann Magnuson, & artists Kenny Scharf, Keith Haring & others. The video was commissioned for the 1985 exhibition Art in Action, curated by Pollock for the Sogetsu Museum in Tokyo. Space Party was also screened at the 1986 Whitney Biennial and an edit was used in the 2021 Kenny Scharf documentary; When Worlds Collide,
In 1988 he resided in Japan for a year where he had a small spoken role in Teshigahara’s period drama „Rykyu”, shot in Kyoto.
Resettled in the UK in 1998, Pollock studied screenwriting under Robert McKee while continuing to support himself as a curator with exhibitions like the well-received Warhol vs Banksy.
Steven is currently based in Vienna where he has authored numerous articles and interviews, which include filmmakers Peter Kubelka & Mitchell Lichtenstein, and multimedia artist VALIE EXPORT.
Vienna has also been the location for collaborations with Austrian director Marieli Fröhlich. In their experimental short film No More Poetry, Pollock contributed the soundtrack and spoken word. Pollock also composed the soundtrack for Fröhlich’s documentary, Art in the Life of Gertie Fröhlich, which screened continually at Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts ( MAK ) for 6 months. The 30-minute film has been chosen as an official entry for the NJ Film Festival at Rutger’s, in September 2024.
Pollock is a contributing writer for a photography book and exhibition of a major Hollywood actor to be released in December 2025.
He has also written and scored a script for a feature to be directed by Marieli Fröhlich — a dramatic musical based on the true life story of an outlier artist, whose tragic death in 1983 from the AIDS virus coincided with the blossoming Renaissance of NY’s Lower East Side art scene. A rare recording Pollock made with the subject, was thought to be lost forever.
Restored in 2020, it has been expanded into 8 songs woven into the screenplay and the finished sizzler.