Vincent Grenier Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1988
    I. D.

    I. D.

    I. D.

    01988HD

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

    I. D.
  • 1978
    Interieur Interiors (To A-K)

    Interieur Interiors (To A-K)

    Interieur Interiors (To A-K)

    01978HD

    Changes of spatial relationships, scales, locations, and materials are intimated with recognisable clues which nevertheless do not always eliminate...

    Interieur Interiors (To A-K)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2009
    Straight Lines

    Straight Lines

    Straight Lines

    02009HD

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

    Straight Lines
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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