Vincent Grenier
Vincent GRENIER (1948-2023, Canada) has made experimental films since the early 1970s, when he received an MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. He then taught in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University and his work was the subject of retrospectives at Media City, Windsor, Ontario and Images Film & Video Festival’s Canadian Images Spotlight, in Toronto. Grenier received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2010.
Filmography
(all short) Window Wind Chimes Part One (1974), Shut Up Barbie (1974), Catch (1975), Light Shaft (1975), Shade (1975), While Revolved (1976), X (1976), World in Focus (1976), Interieur Interiors (1978), Mend (1979), Architecture (1981), Closer Outside (1981), Meg (1982), D’Apres Meg (1982), Tremors (1982), Time’s Wake (1977/87), I.D. (1988), You (1990), Out in the Garden (1991), Tete a Tete (1992, instal), Display (1992), Feet (1994), Surface Tension #2 (1995), Roland Poulin Sculpture (1996), Miracle Grow (1998), Brendan’s Cracker (1999), Winter’s Collection (2000), Capture (2000), Aurora Street (2000), Color Study (2000), Material Incidents (2001), Here (2002), Winter Collection Exhibit (2004, instal), Color/Time/Shift (2004, instal), Tabula Rasa (2004), North Southernly (2006), This, and This (2006), Les Chaises (2008), Armoire, (2 Sections) (2007-2009), Straight Lines (2009), Travelogue (2010), Burning Bush (2010), Armoire (In 4 Parts) (2007-2011), Back View (2011), Waiting Room (2012), Watercolor – Fall Creek (2013), De-Icing (2014), Intersection (2012-2015), Commute (2018)
Vincent Grenier op IFFR
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Surface Tension #2
Vincent Grenier | 4' | USA | Dutch Premiere
A lyrical, impressionistic portrait of Manhattan in Kinemacolor, presented through strobing red and green filters. -
This, and This
Vincent Grenier | 10' | Canada | International premiere
Measuring the contrasts of nuance and starker relations, the state of things, the entire world lies in the difference between this, and this. -
North Southernly
Vincent Grenier | 7' | USA | International premiere
Beautiful convergences: interiors and exteriors enter into a dialogue and condense onto a window in response to the colourful music of John Cage. -
Armoire
Vincent Grenier | 3' | Canada | International premiere
The aviary in the mirror, in-flight hide-and-seek, mischief on the wing. -
Color Study
Vincent Grenier | 5' | Canada | International premiere
A humorous, digitally induced meditation on colours, motion and space from a few frames of road-side autumn panorama in upstate New York. -
Capturé
Vincent Grenier | 6' | Canada | International premiere
A mystery play of transitory exile and a beguiling reunion. -
Aurora Street
Vincent Grenier | 3' | Canada | International premiere
Looking out through the window one autumn morning when passing time moves the soul and the heating can be turned on again. -
Material Incidents
Vincent Grenier | 6' | Canada | World premiere
Glimpse of the secret rituals of light and the loose relationship that light maintains with material, temperature and senses. -