Ethan W. Olsen

Filming Confluence (2019)

Two men materialized on the empty street...

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

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

Human subject study

Four years of surroundings

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.

An exercise in gesture & movement

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

November 12-13, 2021

Inspired by William Raban & Johann Lurf

A third obelisk.

Rome - The Big Nest

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.

Midwest variety show dream

study of a church

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

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

"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."

for Robbie Basho and Jane Brakhage

The sixth in an ongoing peripatetic project.

A trip to northern New Hampshire and Vermont

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