Vincent Grenier Master Class and Retrospective Screening

09/20/04

On September 27, Cinema on the Edge opens its fall season with a daylong visit by renowned experimental film and digital video artist Vincent Grenier.

A Quebecois, Grenier has created more than two dozen works over a career that spans three decades. He is one of the leading conceptual figures advancing the North American avant-garde and his works have been screened around the globe in major film festivals and museums,

Screenings of his work have been held at the Rotterdam Film Festival, Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Anthology Film Archives, the Pacific Film Archives, the New York Film Festival, and the Collective for Living Cinema, among others. His work will be featured at the Views from the Avant Garde as part of this year's New York Film Festival.

Grenier uses digitality to interrogate the cinematic illusion and the make believe. He highlights and exorcises cinematic artifice by revealing the multilinearity of the everyday, the multiple forms of composition, and the nuances of color manipulations. His films and digital videos uncover a variety of visual conjunctures, mythologies, innuendos, and reconstructions that the materiality of daily life disguises.

Master Class -- 4:00 p.m., Park Auditorium
Between Interfaces: Conceptual Visualities and Digital Materialities
A master class with Grenier exploring how digital video can be deployed to create temporal and spatial shifts in the organization of representation, with a particular look at the reconceptualization and refiguration of the quotidian. The master class will focus on the intersection between theorizations of sound/image design and their relationship to exploring the materiality of the digital.

Retrospective Screening -- 7:00 p.m. Park Auditorium
An interactive screening exploring the relationship between Grenier's films and digital videos, featuring a large selection of work produced over the last two decades.

Support for Vincent Grenier's one day residency is generously provided by the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies, Cinema on the Edge, the Department of Cinema and Photography, and a special grant from the Experimental Television Center. The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.

For more information contact Patricia R. Zimmermann.

Contributed by Patricia R. Zimmermann

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