Ethan W. Olsen

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.

Confluence is a 4-part impressionist representation of the Merrimack River, which runs from Franklin, NH at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesauke Rivers into the Atlantic Ocean in Newburyport, MA.

Human subject study

Four years of surroundings

A third obelisk.

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

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.

Confluence is a 4-part impressionist representation of the Merrimack River, which runs from Franklin, NH at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesauke Rivers into the Atlantic Ocean in Newburyport, MA.

Human subject study

Four years of surroundings

A third obelisk.

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

November 12-13, 2021

Inspired by William Raban & Johann Lurf

An exercise in gesture & movement

Midwest variety show dream

study of a church

Rome - The Big Nest

"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."

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

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

“How old do you want to be when you die?” is a question that someone once asked me.

for Robbie Basho and Jane Brakhage

A trip to northern New Hampshire and Vermont

The sixth in an ongoing peripatetic project.