Vincent Grenier Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2013
    Watercolor (Fall Creek)

    Watercolor (Fall Creek)

    Watercolor (Fall Creek)

    02013HD

    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...

    Watercolor (Fall Creek)
  • 1988
    I. D.

    I. D.

    I. D.

    01988HD

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

    I. D.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2009
    Straight Lines

    Straight Lines

    Straight Lines

    02009HD

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

    Straight Lines
  • 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
  • 1999
    Brendan's Cracker

    Brendan's Cracker

    Brendan's Cracker

    01999HD

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

    Brendan's Cracker
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 2002
    Here

    Here

    Here

    02002HD

    A boy’s phantasmagoric world of heroes is captured in layers of light and hues. This video, humorously and poetically juggles ideas about make...

    Here
  • 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
    This, and This

    This, and This

    This, and This

    02006HD

    “This, and This”, is digital immediacy splendor where images of nature cannot be merely innocent. Ideas about the natural and the...

    This, and This