Vincent Grenier Movies
- 2006
North Southernly
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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...
- 2021
Wishbone
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A product of the pandemic, Grenier's new film brings the outdoors in, with curious results.
- 1998
Miracle Grow
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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...
- 2014
de-icing
de-icing02014HD
Energetic audio montage finely re-contextualizes and layers framed displays of giant mechanized insect spouting heat and liquids.
- 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...
- 1981
Closer Outside
Closer Outside01981HD
The precisions and idiosyncrasies of movement associated with domestic activities are closely stared at, or as it sometimes happens, watched...
- 1991
Out in the Garden
Out in the Garden01991HD
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...
- 2010
Travelogue
Travelogue02010HD
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,...
- 2011
Back View
Back View02011HD
The Upper West Side has some of the tallest brick apartment buildings in NYC. The orderly but deserted and aging concrete courtyards, their metal...
- 2001
Material Incidents
Material Incidents02001HD
Material Incidents brings a layered look at the secrets of light's rituals and it’s loose associations with matter, temperature and the senses....
- 2011
Armoire (4 Parts)
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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...
- 2011
Tableaux Vivants
Tableaux Vivants02011HD
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...
- 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...
- 1982
D'apres Meg
D'apres Meg01982HD
In D'APRES MEG, small hand gestures are microscopically observed in their everyday context, a garden conversation, a construction site, a gallery...
- 1994
Feet
Feet01994HD
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...
- 2009
Straight Lines
Straight Lines02009HD
A black-and-white collage in motion. Shadowy projections and solids layered.
- 2002
Here
Here02002HD
A boy’s phantasmagoric world of heroes is captured in layers of light and hues. This video, humorously and poetically juggles ideas about make...
- 1974
Window Wind Chimes: Part 1
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"'Window Wind Chimes' explores in semi-documentary manner the interrelationship between Vincent Grenier and his wife Ann Knutson in the environment...
- 1976
World in Focus
World in Focus01976HD
In “World in Focus,” the screen becomes the two-dimensional support of an amazingly versatile three-dimensional object (an atlas) which...
- 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...