Mike Olenick is a filmmaker, editor, and photographer. In his work, he obsessively appropriates, remembers, restages, and re-edits other cinematic works.

His videos have screened at the World Wide Video Festival, Cinematexas, L.A. Freewaves, the Cinémathèque Française, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, VIPER Basel, the New York Underground Film Festival, and the Brooklyn Underground Festival. His video The Son of Samsonite screened on Dutch television, received an honorable mention at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and was featured in the touring program Let’s Get Tested, organized by Astria Suparak. He is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship and his video Rabid won the Audience Award at Cinematexas 11.

He received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art (with an emphasis in photography) and his BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design in Media Studies. He is currently a video editor in the Art & Technology studio at the Wexner Center for the Arts, where he has worked on projects with Sadie Benning, Jennifer Reeder, and Deborah Stratman, among others.