Ethan W. Olsen

A spokesman rises to the top of the Greater Boston area spokesperson game.

Inspired by William Raban & Johann Lurf

Two men materialized on the empty street...

Rome - The Big Nest

Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar and academic skeptic

Told solely through imagery captured from Google Street View, Google Maps, and Google Earth coupled with text, “Neither Here Nor There” traverses a life from birth to death via the places that define it.

The objects found inside the house seemed of little historical importance - two diaries. But taken together, they form a fantastical little story… and so a filmmaker finds herself caught between fiction and memory, believing in impossibilities.

A trip to northern New Hampshire and Vermont

Filming Confluence (2019)

It came therefore to be believed that Orpheus taught, but left no writings.

Three friends search for a missing man in Manchester, New Hampshire

After a piece by Al Razutis

History is so poetic when it's missing all the pieces.

Human subject study

An experimental documentary about Vermont's Northeast Kingdom and Upper Valley. It highlights the sparseness of the landscape, its isolation and industry, while showing the thread of humanity that lies within.

"A reflection on both our perceptions of ourselves as we age, and my recent move to Vermont, framed by the works of poet Charles Olson."

November 12-13, 2021

for Robbie Basho and Jane Brakhage

The sixth in an ongoing peripatetic project.

An exercise in gesture & movement