Vincent Grenier Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    Peed Into the Wind

    Peed Into the Wind

    Peed Into the Wind

    31972HD

    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...

    Peed Into the Wind
  • 1987
    Time’s Wake (Once Removed)

    Time’s Wake (Once Removed)

    Time’s Wake (Once Removed)

    01987HD

    Described as "a collection of 'windows' on a personal past" "Time's Wake (Once Removed)" incorporates material from an earlier version. On the...

    Time’s Wake (Once Removed)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1978
    Interieur Interiors (To A-K)

    Interieur Interiors (To A-K)

    Interieur Interiors (To A-K)

    01978HD

    Changes of spatial relationships, scales, locations, and materials are intimated with recognisable clues which nevertheless do not always eliminate...

    Interieur Interiors (To A-K)
  • 2009
    Straight Lines

    Straight Lines

    Straight Lines

    02009HD

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

    Straight Lines
  • 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