Vincent Grenier Trailers
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Vincent Grenier is a native of Quebec City, Canada. Since the seventies, he has made over fifty films and videos. One of his video, Tabula Rasa, was screened in the "Best Avant Garde Films & Videos of the Decade" program at the Lincoln Center. Watercolor (2013) received two grand prizes in Experimental Cinema at Black Maria and Athens Film Festival. He will be receiving the Stan Brakhage Vision award at the Denver Film Festival in November 2019. He has received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2010 and numerous Canada Council Grants earlier in his career amongst others. He lives in Ithaca NY and teaches at nearby Binghamton University.
Most Popular Vincent Grenier Trailers
Total trailers found: 48
01 January 1972
An hour-long saga of Mick Terrific, rock 'n' roll star, and the cast of 50 he encounters on his search for "Mr.
07 January 1990
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 one still debating out loud while walking in the streets or doing one's tidies in the bathroom.
03 October 2008
"Two weather worn red vinyl chairs on an outdoor promontory oriented toward a "view", stand as subjects and witnesses.
18 July 2013
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 relationship between earth's natural environment and manufactured human spaces.
13 December 1972
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 loved one.
01 January 1976
In “World in Focus,” the screen becomes the two-dimensional support of an amazingly versatile three-dimensional object (an atlas) which contains in turn two-dimensional pictures of other three-dimensional objects.
07 October 2011
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 new episodes (2011).
10 September 2022
In the playful and hypnotic miniature Moonrise, avant-garde luminary Vincent Grenier sets falling rain and its sweeping pock-filled shadows to an audio collage of DIY foley mimicking the persistent pitter-patter.
15 May 1995
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 white films by filming and projecting them through synchronized red and green filters.
01 January 1975
"Catch is a fragmented observation on hidden reflective surfaces, the corner of a dormant television screen, a window.
10 October 2014
Energetic audio montage finely re-contextualizes and layers framed displays of giant mechanized insect spouting heat and liquids.
10 October 2007
The aviary in the mirror, in-flight hide-and-seek, mischief on the wing.
01 January 1982
In D'APRES MEG, small hand gestures are microscopically observed in their everyday context, a garden conversation, a construction site, a gallery setting.
26 June 2011
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 the artifice.
01 January 2004
"Revisiting footage he shot more than ten years ago in an American high school, Vincent Grenier combines deftly manipulated and layered images with oblique commentaries delivered by students and instructors.
01 January 1974
"'Window Wind Chimes' explores in semi-documentary manner the interrelationship between Vincent Grenier and his wife Ann Knutson in the environment of their San Francisco apartment.
03 October 2009
A black-and-white collage in motion. Shadowy projections and solids layered.
01 January 1994
A video portrait of my friend, Susan Weisser and of her rapport with 13 year old son Billy and seventeen year old daughter Amanda.
15 April 2000
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 by the city of Ithaca.
09 September 2012
The pulsating rhythms of fluorescent lighting not quite in synch with those of the video image, create a singular array of drifting yellows.
10 October 2006
“This, and This”, is digital immediacy splendor where images of nature cannot be merely innocent.
03 October 2010
This video was taken using small digital still camera on multiple bus trips between New York City and Upstate NY.
01 January 1998
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 digital realm, the film is an inventory of a growing baby as he struggles to gain mastery of his limbs.
22 March 1988
Human subjects and their verbal discourse, dealing with fleeting and shifting identity.
15 May 1999
This film is a collage of distant worlds, lost and not yet learned; memories and functions as playful instincts.
04 October 2018
Distinct fields on the same screen, foreground each other, invite comparisons, between different times and spaces, and the constructed and natural processes that inescapably defines us thru textures and emotional spaces.
05 October 2016
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 spaces that they have come through, just as the images themselves reflect the history of their own alterations.
04 April 1984
Tall buildings and cars are shot through the Kinemacolor process, variable color filters and a water lens.
01 January 1974
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 tragic conclusions.
02 October 2015
On the corner of Brooktondale Rd and route 79 near Ithaca is an amazing planting of Forget-Me-Nots and Dandelions.
05 October 1981
The precisions and idiosyncrasies of movement associated with domestic activities are closely stared at, or as it sometimes happens, watched carefully through the peripheral vision.
29 April 2003
"It shows my interest in materials, medium, and apparatus of cinema. The sound will be produced from the visual on the optical soundtrack – for some parts, I used a 35mm still camera to expose the soundtrack area, and I scratched off the film emulsion directly for other parts.
01 September 2000
A humorous, digitally induced meditation on colors, motion and space from a few frames of road side fall panorama in upstate NY.
01 January 2008
Boys love to spin until they collapse. Is the world then spinning out of control? Preparations for renegotiating the Nonproliferation Treaty.
10 February 2010
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.
07 October 2011
The Upper West Side has some of the tallest brick apartment buildings in NYC. The orderly but deserted and aging concrete courtyards, their metal stairs and shafts, register a dramatically changing atmosphere.
29 October 2021
A product of the pandemic, Grenier's new film brings the outdoors in, with curious results.
30 May 1978
Changes of spatial relationships, scales, locations, and materials are intimated with recognisable clues which nevertheless do not always eliminate the former understanding of the images.
15 November 2001
Material Incidents brings a layered look at the secrets of light's rituals and it’s loose associations with matter, temperature and the senses.
01 January 1979
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 grey winter day.
01 December 1991
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 own way, tries to come to terms with the news.
18 January 2002
A boy’s phantasmagoric world of heroes is captured in layers of light and hues. This video, humorously and poetically juggles ideas about make believe and representation of the everyday.
13 September 1987
Described as "a collection of 'windows' on a personal past" "Time's Wake (Once Removed)" incorporates material from an earlier version.
01 January 1975
"Light Shaft" diagonally crosses the screen with a wedged light formation, usually on the diagonal. Its variations are rendered through arrangements of the tripod while panning the camera.
01 October 1976
"The insinuation of camera movements and the familiarity of the same forms recurring in black and then luminous white shapes, makes X an intriguing visual play on positive/negative space.
24 January 2006
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 piece as a humorous digital cine take on the long cultural history of the lessons left by the great Chinese painters of the 13th century for whom shapes and edges where often all one and the same.
01 January 1975
"'Shade' is a near exhaustion of the possibilities between camera (aperture, focus) and nature (sun, wind).
01 January 1976
(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 light or the emulsion or the illusion or the projector or the camera, but all of them.
