Vincent Grenier Movies

  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1976
    While Revolved

    While Revolved

    While Revolved

    01976HD

    Project at 18 fps. This film is concerned with the projected, not just light or the emulsion or the illusion or the projector or the camera, but all...

    While Revolved
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1976
    White Revolved

    White Revolved

    White Revolved

    01976HD

    Pools of light and shadow displace each other as the camera describes an arc or spiral on a section of wall or ceiling. Periodically the motion...

    White Revolved
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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