You

You

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...

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Surface Tension #2

Surface Tension #2

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...

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Moonrise

Moonrise

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

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The Chairs

The Chairs

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

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Tremors

Tremors

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

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Commute

Commute

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

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Watercolor (Fall Creek)

Watercolor (Fall Creek)

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...

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Pending

Pending

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...

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Intersection

Intersection

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...

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Waiting Room

Waiting Room

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

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Travelogue

Travelogue

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...

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Wishbone

Wishbone

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

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Armoire (2 Parts)

Armoire (2 Parts)

The aviary in the mirror, in-flight hide-and-seek, mischief on the wing.

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Burning Bush

Burning Bush

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...

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Armoire (4 Parts)

Armoire (4 Parts)

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...

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de-icing

de-icing

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

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Back View

Back View

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

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This, and This

This, and This

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

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Straight Lines

Straight Lines

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

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Tableaux Vivants

Tableaux Vivants

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...

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