Vincent Grenier Movies

  • 1995
    Surface Tension #2

    Surface Tension #2

    Surface Tension #2

    01995HD

    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...

    Surface Tension #2
  • 1972
    Peed Into the Wind

    Peed Into the Wind

    Peed Into the Wind

    11972HD

    An hour-long saga of Mick Terrific, rock 'n' roll star, and the cast of 50 he encounters on his search for "Mr. Wonderful." “PEED INTO THE...

    Peed Into the Wind
  • 2022
    Moonrise

    Moonrise

    Moonrise

    02022HD

    In the playful and hypnotic miniature Moonrise, avant-garde luminary Vincent Grenier sets falling rain and its sweeping pock-filled shadows to an...

    Moonrise
  • 1972
    Honey Moon Lane

    Honey Moon Lane

    Honey Moon Lane

    01972HD

    Inspired by dreams and nightmares, Honey Moon Lane unfolds with a series of absurdist entanglements in the heterosexual love life of a man and his...

    Honey Moon Lane
  • 1984
    Tremors

    Tremors

    Tremors

    01984HD

    Tall buildings and cars are shot through the Kinemacolor process, variable color filters and a water lens. Sturdiness jousts with fragility, past...

    Tremors
  • 2016
    Pending

    Pending

    Pending

    02016HD

    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...

    Pending
  • 2010
    Burning Bush

    Burning Bush

    Burning Bush

    02010HD

    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...

    Burning Bush
  • 1976
    X

    X

    X

    01976HD

    "The insinuation of camera movements and the familiarity of the same forms recurring in black and then luminous white shapes, makes X an intriguing...

    X
  • 1975
    Catch

    Catch

    Catch

    01975HD

    "Catch is a fragmented observation on hidden reflective surfaces, the corner of a dormant television screen, a window..." —Mike Reynolds

    Catch
  • 1990
    You

    You

    You

    6.11990HD

    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...

    You
  • 2004
    Tabula Rasa

    Tabula Rasa

    Tabula Rasa

    02004HD

    "Revisiting footage he shot more than ten years ago in an American high school, Vincent Grenier combines deftly manipulated and layered images with...

    Tabula Rasa
  • 1979
    Mend

    Mend

    Mend

    01979HD

    Is it happening in the screening room or on the screen; in a snowstorm or inside; what isn't surrounding and what is? From filming Ann sewing, on a...

    Mend
  • 1974
    Shut Up Barbie

    Shut Up Barbie

    Shut Up Barbie

    01974HD

    The film is a reaction to the obsession a seven-year-old girl has with her many Barbie Dolls. The world of Barbie is pushed to its innocuous and...

    Shut Up Barbie
  • 2001
    Material Incidents

    Material Incidents

    Material Incidents

    02001HD

    Material Incidents brings a layered look at the secrets of light's rituals and it’s loose associations with matter, temperature and the senses....

    Material Incidents
  • 1994
    Feet

    Feet

    Feet

    01994HD

    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...

    Feet
  • 2021
    Wishbone

    Wishbone

    Wishbone

    02021HD

    A product of the pandemic, Grenier's new film brings the outdoors in, with curious results.

    Wishbone
  • 2000
    Color Study

    Color Study

    Color Study

    02000HD

    A humorous, digitally induced meditation on colors, motion and space from a few frames of road side fall panorama in upstate NY.

    Color Study
  • 1982
    D'apres Meg

    D'apres Meg

    D'apres Meg

    01982HD

    In D'APRES MEG, small hand gestures are microscopically observed in their everyday context, a garden conversation, a construction site, a gallery...

    D'apres Meg
  • 2011
    Back View

    Back View

    Back View

    02011HD

    The Upper West Side has some of the tallest brick apartment buildings in NYC. The orderly but deserted and aging concrete courtyards, their metal...

    Back View
  • 1975
    Shade

    Shade

    Shade

    01975HD

    "'Shade' is a near exhaustion of the possibilities between camera (aperture, focus) and nature (sun, wind). It is a beautiful study-poem on the...

    Shade