Vincent Grenier Movies

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...

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

Described as "a collection of 'windows' on a personal past" "Time's Wake (Once Removed)" incorporates material from an earlier version. On the...

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

Energetic audio montage finely re-contextualizes and layers framed displays of giant mechanized insect spouting heat and liquids.

The Upper West Side has some of the tallest brick apartment buildings in NYC. The orderly but deserted and aging concrete courtyards, their metal...

In D'APRES MEG, small hand gestures are microscopically observed in their everyday context, a garden conversation, a construction site, a gallery...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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,...

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

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

The precisions and idiosyncrasies of movement associated with domestic activities are closely stared at, or as it sometimes happens, watched...

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