Vincent Grenier Movies
- 1990
You
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I had been looking for someone's unnerving encounter, that conversation that one just couldn't get out of their head, the kind of event that leaves...
- 1995
Surface Tension #2
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This film was shot in color but using the Kinemacolor process, a process which was used in 1915 to obtain fairly illusionistic colors from black and...
- 2016
Pending
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A collage more than a diary using images as artifacts that reflect processes. Sounds often come from other rooms, altered by their distance and the...
- 1976
X
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"The insinuation of camera movements and the familiarity of the same forms recurring in black and then luminous white shapes, makes X an intriguing...
- 1975
Light Shaft
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"Light Shaft" diagonally crosses the screen with a wedged light formation, usually on the diagonal. Its variations are rendered through arrangements...
- 1984
Tremors
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Tall buildings and cars are shot through the Kinemacolor process, variable color filters and a water lens. Sturdiness jousts with fragility, past...
- 2018
Commute
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Distinct fields on the same screen, foreground each other, invite comparisons, between different times and spaces, and the constructed and natural...
- 1972
Peed Into the Wind
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“PEED INTO THE WIND smears across the screen like one of those dirty underground comic books. It’s loaded with a lot of big scenes and...
- 2008
The Chairs
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"Two weather worn red vinyl chairs on an outdoor promontory oriented toward a "view", stand as subjects and witnesses. The chairs themselves provide...
- 2000
Winter Collection
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This video was originally shot in Hi 8 on a winter day in 1992, the last day Ithacans could have their dry garbage and cast-offs hauled away for free...
- 1999
Brendan's Cracker
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This film is a collage of distant worlds, lost and not yet learned; memories and functions as playful instincts. An Alzheimer-afflicted woman’s...
- 1978
Interieur Interiors (To A-K)
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Changes of spatial relationships, scales, locations, and materials are intimated with recognisable clues which nevertheless do not always eliminate...
- 2015
Intersection
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On the corner of Brooktondale Rd and route 79 near Ithaca is an amazing planting of Forget-Me-Nots and Dandelions. An improbable dance between...
- 1976
While Revolved
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(This film has been referred to as both White Revolved and While Revolved.) Project at 18 fps. This film is concerned with the projected, not just...
- 2002
Here
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A boy’s phantasmagoric world of heroes is captured in layers of light and hues. This video, humorously and poetically juggles ideas about make...
- 2010
Burning Bush
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Burning Bush is made from a series of mid fall shots of a bright "digital" red euonymus both in real time and with video time lapses. Much of the...
- 1994
Feet
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A video portrait of my friend, Susan Weisser and of her rapport with 13 year old son Billy and seventeen year old daughter Amanda. The video, divided...
- 2021
Wishbone
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A product of the pandemic, Grenier's new film brings the outdoors in, with curious results.
- 2011
Tableaux Vivants
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A rumination on cinematic time reversals as versatile continuums. Re-discovering the outdoors as (a stage) set where the natural is made to pose as...
- 2013
Watercolor (Fall Creek)
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Water flows under two bridges, or so it may appear. Since the advent of the industrial age, there has been a heated dialogue regarding the...