Project Description

George Olken

FSC Logo by Kepes

FSC-Harvard Fellow 2013-14, 2014-15

George Olken is a fifth year teaching assistant in VES. His project Daniel Wessius is an observational documentary about an observational documentary, namely Frederick Wiseman’s Belfast, Maine (1999). It is also a portrait of the filmmaker’s friend David Wessels, an itinerant homesteader in and around Belfast.