Vincent Grenier Movies
- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 2021

Wishbone
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A product of the pandemic, Grenier's new film brings the outdoors in, with curious results.
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 2004

Tabula Rasa
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"Revisiting footage he shot more than ten years ago in an American high school, Vincent Grenier combines deftly manipulated and layered images with...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 1981

Closer Outside
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The precisions and idiosyncrasies of movement associated with domestic activities are closely stared at, or as it sometimes happens, watched...
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- 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...
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- 2000

Color Study
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A humorous, digitally induced meditation on colors, motion and space from a few frames of road side fall panorama in upstate NY.
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- 1975

Catch
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"Catch is a fragmented observation on hidden reflective surfaces, the corner of a dormant television screen, a window..." —Mike Reynolds
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- 2014

de-icing
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Energetic audio montage finely re-contextualizes and layers framed displays of giant mechanized insect spouting heat and liquids.
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- 1974

Shut Up Barbie
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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...
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- 1972

Peed Into the Wind
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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...
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- 2010

Travelogue
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This video was taken using small digital still camera on multiple bus trips between New York City and Upstate NY. The bus' many large windows,...
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