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Featuring a retrospective of his exquisitely rendered and composed films that dynamically rewire our perceptions of habitats through form, shape, light, and composition.

Monday, April 6, 2015
3-5 p.m.
Park Auditorium
Ithaca College
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Vincent Grenier is a native of Quebec City, Canada but has been living in the US since the early 1970s. He has produced a large and significant body of work exploring light, form, color, texture, and space. Grenier's experimental films and videos have earned numerous awards.

They have been exhibited in North America, Europe and China at major museums, showcases and festivals. His large body of experimental work has been featured in major retrospectives at various festivals and showcases. One of his videos, Tabula Rasa, was screened in the “Best Avant Garde Films & Videos of the Decade” program at the Lincoln Center. His most recent video Watercolor earned grand prizes in experimental works at The Black Maria Film and Video Festival and The Athens International Film Festival in Athens, Ohio.. He was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2010. He lives in Ithaca NY and teaches at nearby Binghamton University.

Selected Works of Vincent Grenier to be Screened

Armoire Prologue & Coda (2007, 6 min)
Tabula Rasa (2004, 7.5 min)
Out In the Garden ( 1991, 15 min)
Les Chaises (2008, 9 min)
Burning Bush (2010, 9 min)
Tableaux Vivants (2011, 5 min)
Back View (2011, 17 min)
Watercolor ( 2013, 12 min)
Color Study (2000, 4.5 min)
Winter Collection (2000, 4.5 min)
Waiting Room (2012, 9 min)

Selected Writings on the Experimental Films of Vincent Grenier

“If Grenier’s work provides pleasures both anticipated (the formal beauty and exacting eye of a great media artist) and unanticipated (the many contradictions, misprisions, and perceptual paradoxes the works induce), his films and videos also seem to want to tell us, in very direct ways, that those pleasures are only partly of the artist’s making. They are also accidental and given to chance; they are also freely available. And so in a way, I think Vincent Grenier’s work, if I may call upon one of the hoary old saws of the avant-garde, aims to “teach us how to see,” but in ways a bit different than how that concept has been trotted out in the past by mythopoets and structuralists alike.” – Michael Sicinski (Moving Image Source)

Michale Sicinski on the Grenier show at the Blaffer museum in Houston http://www.blafferartmuseum.org/event/on-screen-blaffer-vincent-grenier/

"It's the Small Things" (Click on Archive tab and 11.2014) by Tony Pipolo on the Cinema as a Found Object, Films and Videos by Vincent Grenier program at Anthology Film Archives, ART FORUM, 11.7.14

An interview with Vincent Grenier in advance of his November 30 screening at Counterpath, Denver, Colorado.

Naturally Unnaturally, Review and Interview in Westword by Kyle Harris, Denver, Colorado

Entrevue avec Vincent Grenier au sujet de Watercolor (Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal) En francais sur You Tube. 11.10.2014

FLEFF: A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT

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