Vincent Grenier Movies

  • 2008
    Failed States

    Failed States

    Failed States

    02008HD

    Boys love to spin until they collapse. Is the world then spinning out of control? Preparations for renegotiating the Nonproliferation Treaty.

    Failed States
  • 1980
    Aqueerius

    Aqueerius

    Aqueerius

    01980HD

    “Washes of water and other liquids soak the imagery...strung together for a rather enigmatic yet definite statement on something. Only the...

    Aqueerius
  • 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
  • 1998
    Miracle Grow

    Miracle Grow

    Miracle Grow

    01998HD

    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...

    Miracle Grow
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1988
    I. D.

    I. D.

    I. D.

    01988HD

    Human subjects and their verbal discourse, dealing with fleeting and shifting identity.

    I. D.
  • 1975
    Catch

    Catch

    Catch

    01975HD

    "Catch is a fragmented observation on hidden reflective surfaces, the corner of a dormant television screen, a window..." —Mike Reynolds

    Catch
  • 2003
    Apollo

    Apollo

    Apollo

    72003HD

    "It shows my interest in materials, medium, and apparatus of cinema. The sound will be produced from the visual on the optical soundtrack – for...

    Apollo
  • 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
  • 2001
    Material Incidents

    Material Incidents

    Material Incidents

    02001HD

    Material Incidents brings a layered look at the secrets of light's rituals and it’s loose associations with matter, temperature and the senses....

    Material Incidents
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2000
    Color Study

    Color Study

    Color Study

    02000HD

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

    Color Study
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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