Vincent Grenier Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2021
    Wishbone

    Wishbone

    Wishbone

    02021HD

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

    Wishbone
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2009
    Straight Lines

    Straight Lines

    Straight Lines

    02009HD

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

    Straight Lines
  • 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
  • 1974
    Window Wind Chimes: Part 1

    Window Wind Chimes: Part 1

    Window Wind Chimes: Part 1

    01974HD

    "'Window Wind Chimes' explores in semi-documentary manner the interrelationship between Vincent Grenier and his wife Ann Knutson in the environment...

    Window Wind Chimes: Part 1
  • 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
  • 2007
    Armoire (2 Parts)

    Armoire (2 Parts)

    Armoire (2 Parts)

    02007HD

    The aviary in the mirror, in-flight hide-and-seek, mischief on the wing.

    Armoire (2 Parts)
  • 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
    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
  • 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