Vincent Grenier Movies

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...

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...

“PEED INTO THE WIND smears across the screen like one of those dirty underground comic books. It’s loaded with a lot of big scenes and...

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...

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...

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

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

Distinct fields on the same screen, foreground each other, invite comparisons, between different times and spaces, and the constructed and natural...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

This film is a collage of distant worlds, lost and not yet learned; memories and functions as playful instincts. An Alzheimer-afflicted woman’s...

(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...

In the playful and hypnotic miniature Moonrise, avant-garde luminary Vincent Grenier sets falling rain and its sweeping pock-filled shadows to an...

The pulsating rhythms of fluorescent lighting not quite in synch with those of the video image, create a singular array of drifting yellows. Camera...

In “World in Focus,” the screen becomes the two-dimensional support of an amazingly versatile three-dimensional object (an atlas) which...

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