Vincent Grenier Movies
- 1990

You
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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...
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- 1995

Surface Tension #2
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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...
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- 1976

X
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"The insinuation of camera movements and the familiarity of the same forms recurring in black and then luminous white shapes, makes X an intriguing...
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- 2016

Pending
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A collage more than a diary using images as artifacts that reflect processes. Sounds often come from other rooms, altered by their distance and the...
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- 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...
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- 1984

Tremors
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Tall buildings and cars are shot through the Kinemacolor process, variable color filters and a water lens. Sturdiness jousts with fragility, past...
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- 2008

The Chairs
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"Two weather worn red vinyl chairs on an outdoor promontory oriented toward a "view", stand as subjects and witnesses. The chairs themselves provide...
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- 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...
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- 1972

Peed Into the Wind
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An hour-long saga of Mick Terrific, rock 'n' roll star, and the cast of 50 he encounters on his search for "Mr. Wonderful." “PEED INTO THE...
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- 1975

Shade
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"'Shade' is a near exhaustion of the possibilities between camera (aperture, focus) and nature (sun, wind). It is a beautiful study-poem on the...
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- 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...
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- 2011

Tableaux Vivants
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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...
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- 2015

Intersection
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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...
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- 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,...
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- 1981

Closer Outside
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The precisions and idiosyncrasies of movement associated with domestic activities are closely stared at, or as it sometimes happens, watched...
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- 1975

Light Shaft
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"Light Shaft" diagonally crosses the screen with a wedged light formation, usually on the diagonal. Its variations are rendered through arrangements...
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- 2000

Color Study
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A humorous, digitally induced meditation on colors, motion and space from a few frames of road side fall panorama in upstate NY.
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- 2009

Straight Lines
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A black-and-white collage in motion. Shadowy projections and solids layered.
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- 2021

Wishbone
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A product of the pandemic, Grenier's new film brings the outdoors in, with curious results.
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- 1976

While Revolved
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(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...
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