Ethan W. Olsen Movies

"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."

"...then he saw a tree with white fruit. This sweet fruit made those who ate it happy..." Casting out along rivers of time, evoking the souls surrounding the obelisk itself, the camera traces several stories in two distinct phases...

Two men materialized on the empty street...

Midwest variety show dream

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

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

An exercise in gesture & movement

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

Inspired by William Raban & Johann Lurf

A trip to northern New Hampshire and Vermont

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

Rome - The Big Nest

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.

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.

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

Four years of surroundings

After a piece by Al Razutis

study of a church