Vincent Grenier Filmes

  • 1995
    Surface Tension #2

    Surface Tension #2

    Surface Tension #2

    01995HD

    This film was shot in color but using the Kinemacolor process, a process which was used in 1915 to obtain fairly illusionistic colors from black and...

    Surface Tension #2
  • 1972
    Peed Into the Wind

    Peed Into the Wind

    Peed Into the Wind

    11972HD

    “PEED INTO THE WIND smears across the screen like one of those dirty underground comic books. It’s loaded with a lot of big scenes and...

    Peed Into the Wind
  • 2011
    Back View

    Back View

    Back View

    02011HD

    The Upper West Side has some of the tallest brick apartment buildings in NYC. The orderly but deserted and aging concrete courtyards, their metal...

    Back View
  • 1990
    You

    You

    You

    6.6671990HD

    I had been looking for someone's unnerving encounter, that conversation that one just couldn't get out of their head, the kind of event that leaves...

    You
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2018
    Commute

    Commute

    Commute

    02018HD

    Distinct fields on the same screen, foreground each other, invite comparisons, between different times and spaces, and the constructed and natural...

    Commute
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2012
    Waiting Room

    Waiting Room

    Waiting Room

    02012HD

    The pulsating rhythms of fluorescent lighting not quite in synch with those of the video image, create a singular array of drifting yellows. Camera...

    Waiting Room
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2021
    Wishbone

    Wishbone

    Wishbone

    02021HD

    A product of the pandemic, Grenier's new film brings the outdoors in, with curious results.

    Wishbone
  • 2009
    Straight Lines

    Straight Lines

    Straight Lines

    02009HD

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

    Straight Lines
  • 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
  • 2015
    Intersection

    Intersection

    Intersection

    02015HD

    On the corner of Brooktondale Rd and route 79 near Ithaca is an amazing planting of Forget-Me-Nots and Dandelions. An improbable dance between...

    Intersection
  • 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
  • 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)