Vincent Grenier Movies

  • 1988
    I. D.

    I. D.

    I. D.

    01988HD

    Human subjects and their verbal discourse, dealing with fleeting and shifting identity.

    I. D.
  • 2009
    Straight Lines

    Straight Lines

    Straight Lines

    02009HD

    A black-and-white collage in motion. Shadowy projections and solids layered.

    Straight Lines
  • 2010
    Travelogue

    Travelogue

    Travelogue

    02010HD

    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,...

    Travelogue
  • 2008
    The Chairs

    The Chairs

    The Chairs

    02008HD

    "Two weather worn red vinyl chairs on an outdoor promontory oriented toward a "view", stand as subjects and witnesses. The chairs themselves provide...

    The Chairs
  • 1999
    Brendan's Cracker

    Brendan's Cracker

    Brendan's Cracker

    01999HD

    This film is a collage of distant worlds, lost and not yet learned; memories and functions as playful instincts. An Alzheimer-afflicted woman’s...

    Brendan's Cracker
  • 2000
    Winter Collection

    Winter Collection

    Winter Collection

    02000HD

    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...

    Winter Collection
  • 1998
    Miracle Grow

    Miracle Grow

    Miracle Grow

    01998HD

    Miracle Grow is a personal piece with elements of a home movie. Originally shot in Mini DV, edited and transferred to film without leaving the...

    Miracle Grow
  • 1976
    While Revolved

    While Revolved

    While Revolved

    01976HD

    (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...

    While Revolved
  • 2011
    Tableaux Vivants

    Tableaux Vivants

    Tableaux Vivants

    02011HD

    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...

    Tableaux Vivants
  • 2002
    Here

    Here

    Here

    02002HD

    A boy’s phantasmagoric world of heroes is captured in layers of light and hues. This video, humorously and poetically juggles ideas about make...

    Here
  • 1976
    World in Focus

    World in Focus

    World in Focus

    01976HD

    In “World in Focus,” the screen becomes the two-dimensional support of an amazingly versatile three-dimensional object (an atlas) which...

    World in Focus
  • 1981
    Closer Outside

    Closer Outside

    Closer Outside

    01981HD

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

    Closer Outside
  • 2013
    Watercolor (Fall Creek)

    Watercolor (Fall Creek)

    Watercolor (Fall Creek)

    02013HD

    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...

    Watercolor (Fall Creek)
  • 2014
    de-icing

    de-icing

    de-icing

    02014HD

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

    de-icing
  • 2007
    Armoire (2 Parts)

    Armoire (2 Parts)

    Armoire (2 Parts)

    02007HD

    The aviary in the mirror, in-flight hide-and-seek, mischief on the wing.

    Armoire (2 Parts)
  • 2011
    Armoire (4 Parts)

    Armoire (4 Parts)

    Armoire (4 Parts)

    02011HD

    A four-part study of motion, shape and colour inspired by a robin's flight. Consists of: "Armoire Prologue" (2:40, 2007), "Coda" (2:30, 2009) and two...

    Armoire (4 Parts)
  • 2006
    North Southernly

    North Southernly

    North Southernly

    02006HD

    Changes of directions, in the wind, the edges, the shapes, a joyous and mesmerizing intrigue. Perhaps an other way to put it is to describe this...

    North Southernly
  • 1975
    Light Shaft

    Light Shaft

    Light Shaft

    01975HD

    "Light Shaft" diagonally crosses the screen with a wedged light formation, usually on the diagonal. Its variations are rendered through arrangements...

    Light Shaft
  • 2006
    This, and This

    This, and This

    This, and This

    02006HD

    “This, and This”, is digital immediacy splendor where images of nature cannot be merely innocent. Ideas about the natural and the...

    This, and This
  • 1991
    Out in the Garden

    Out in the Garden

    Out in the Garden

    01991HD

    A film about the dynamic of assumptions as seen through the struggle of a gay man who has recently been told that he is HIV positive and who, in his...

    Out in the Garden