Moonrise (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. ...
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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.
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. ...
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A product of the pandemic, Grenier's new film brings the outdoors in, with curious results. ...
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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. Commute does refer to regular trave ...
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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 alteratio ...
Watch NowEnergetic audio montage finely re-contextualizes and layers framed displays of giant mechanized insect spouting heat and liquids. ...
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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). ...
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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. This is a cinema that seeks to observe, obscur ...
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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. ...
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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, afforded dramatic reflections to this perched passenger feeling as if floating through the landscape. Lulled by t ...
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A black-and-white collage in motion. Shadowy projections and solids layered. ...
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"Two weather worn red vinyl chairs on an outdoor promontory oriented toward a "view", stand as subjects and witnesses. The chairs themselves provide openings or internal views, into color fields, their standard issue "natural textures" upholstery, oval scr ...
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Watch Now"This, and This", is digital immediacy splendor where images of nature cannot be merely innocent. Ideas about the natural and the mechanical are being toyed with, in varying degrees of wetness, scale, compressed states and expectations. ...
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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 pai ...
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"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. The socializing process of education is made vis ...
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"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 di ...
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Material Incidents brings a layered look at the secrets of light's rituals and it's loose associations with matter, temperature and the senses. Our eyes, our brain's primary sensors, ultimate arbiters of our sense of reality, well being and even of securit ...
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A humorous, digitally induced meditation on colors, motion and space from a few frames of road side fall panorama in upstate NY. ...
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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. ...
Watch NowA 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 in two sections used as a premise the reconstruction of her daily rituals with first the son and then the ...
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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. The film eschews the usual talking head and focuses on the p ...
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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. After interv ...
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Described as "a collection of 'windows' on a personal past" "Time's Wake (Once Removed)" incorporates material from an earlier version. On the earlier version: made from material I collected through the years when I went back to visit my parents at L'Ile d ...
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Tall buildings and cars are shot through the Kinemacolor process, variable color filters and a water lens. Sturdiness jousts with fragility, past with present, alienation with tenderness, abrasiveness with sensuality, red with green. The camera is moving i ...
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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. This while rhyming, is done in alternance, thus creating sudden rushes in ...
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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. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016. ...
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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. These and other levels of ambiguity are instilled, which shake the p ...
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"Catch is a fragmented observation on hidden reflective surfaces, the corner of a dormant television screen, a window... ...
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"'Shade' is a near exhaustion of the possibilities between camera (aperture, focus) and nature (sun, wind). It is a beautiful study-poem on the undying presence that renders the world perceptually. In this minimal area, the variations are pursued with quie ...
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"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. Limiting the viewer's attention to a smaller screen, a point in spa ...
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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. Ann Knutson plays the role of the mother. "Shut Up Barbie" was pixilated in Tiburon, Ca. ...
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Watch NowInspired 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. For better or for worst, this film is as engaged in the unraveling of amorous film clichés and fa ...
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Boys love to spin until they collapse. Is the world then spinning out of control? Preparations for renegotiating the Nonproliferation Treaty. ...
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