Vincent Grenier Movies
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2018
Commute
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Distinct fields on the same screen, foreground each other, invite comparisons, between different times and spaces, and the constructed and natural...
- 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...
- 1991
Out in the Garden
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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...
- 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...
- 1987
Time’s Wake (Once Removed)
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Described as "a collection of 'windows' on a personal past" "Time's Wake (Once Removed)" incorporates material from an earlier version. On the...
- 1976
World in Focus
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In “World in Focus,” the screen becomes the two-dimensional support of an amazingly versatile three-dimensional object (an atlas) which...
- 1994
Feet
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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...
- 2001
Material Incidents
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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
Back View
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The Upper West Side has some of the tallest brick apartment buildings in NYC. The orderly but deserted and aging concrete courtyards, their metal...
- 1972
Honey Moon Lane
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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...
- 2021
Wishbone
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A product of the pandemic, Grenier's new film brings the outdoors in, with curious results.
- 2007
Armoire (2 Parts)
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The aviary in the mirror, in-flight hide-and-seek, mischief on the wing.
- 2012
Waiting Room
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The pulsating rhythms of fluorescent lighting not quite in synch with those of the video image, create a singular array of drifting yellows. Camera...