Education: San Francisco Art Institute. M. F. A. in Filmmaking, 1970-72 Ecole des Beaux Arts de Québec. Major in Painting & Photography, 1969-70 cegep ste-Foy, P. Q. Dec in Art, 1967-69 Teaching



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Vincent Grenier

Binghamton University, Department of Cinema, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 607-777-4997


Born in Québec, Canada -1948
Education:

San Francisco Art Institute,. M.F.A. in Filmmaking, 1970-72

Ecole des Beaux Arts de Québec. Major in Painting & Photography, 1969-70

CEGEP Ste-Foy, P.Q. DEC in Art, 1967-69


Teaching:

Binghamton University, Department of Cinema. Associate Professor.


Grants/Fellowships:

The recipient, from the mid seventies until 1992 of 10 Canada Council Arts Grants in Cinema. Received in 1992 & 1994 two Electronic Arts Grant from the Experimental Television Center funded by the New York State Council on the Arts; one CAPS, cinema grants funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, in1979 and one NYFA, cinema grants funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, in 1995.


Selected Film Collections:

The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. National Film Archive, Ottawa. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. University of Binghamton, SUNY. University of Colorado at Boulder. Canadian Art Bank, Ottawa. Stan Brakhage Film Collection, Boulder, Donell Library in NYC.


Other:

Grenier's films have been shown in the United States, Canada and Europe at showcases such as the Centre Pompidou, the Cinématheque Québecoise, the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, The Anthology Film Archives, the Pacific Film Archives, the San Francisco Cinematheque and the Collective for Living Cinema. Seven of his films were selected as part of the Twentieth Century Whitney Museum Exhibition in the winter 2000. A program of his work was the featured “Spotlight” at the 2006 Images Film Festival in Toronto Canada.


Film/Videography/Awards:

2005 NORTH SOUTHERNLY 6:00 min. Mini DV, Stereo Views from the Avant-Garde, NewYork Film Festival, 2005 Lincoln Center, NYC

2004 TULA RASA (7.5 min), 2nd prize Media City Festival, Windsor, Canada; Views from the Avant Garde, New York Film Festival and Onion Film & Video Festival, Oberhausen Film Fest.

2002 HERE (6.5 min) Awarded Gold for best Experimental film, New York Film Expo,

2000 COLOR STUDY (4.5 min,) Rotterdam Film festival, London and Toronto Film Festivals , Lincoln Center, Second prize at the Black Maria Film Festival and

2001 MATERIAL INCIDENTS, (6 min.), Rotterdam Film Festival. & New York Video Festival,

2000 WINTER COLLECTION Video/16 mm (Orig. Mini DV) 3:30 min

CAPTURE Video (Orig. Mini DV) 5:00

1999 BRENDAN'S CRACKER Video/16 mm (Orig. Mini DV & Hi 8) 8:30 min

1998 MIRACLE GROW Digital Video/16mm film, 12:30 min. Color / sound

Award: Director's Choice, 1998 Black Maria Film & Video Festival.

1996 ROLAND POULAIN SCULPTURE VHS / Umatic (Shot in SVHS) 15:20 min. color / sound

Curated screening: 15th International Festival of Films on Art, Montréal, March 1997.

1995 SURFACE TENSION # 2 16mm 6 min. color / sound



Award: Director's Choice, 1995 Black Maria Film & Video Festival. Screenings: Conspiracies Film Festival, Symposium on Independent Film & Video at the University of Colorado, Boulder, June 1996.

1994 FEET VHS / Umatic (shot in Hi 8 mm) 29 min. b&w / sound



Award: Second prize, 1996 Black Maria Film & Video Festival Screening: Symposium on Independent Film & Video at the University of Colorado, Boulder, June 1996. WNET’s REEL NEW YORK, Summer 1998. Coll. NYU.

1992 DISPLAY VHS / Umatic (shot in Hi 8) 16 min. Also Tete a Tete a two screen instalation.

1991 OUT IN THE GARDEN 16mm 15min. color / sound

Michael Moore Award, Best Documentary, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1992, - Best Experimental Documentary, 1992, - 16th Atlanta Film & Video Festival. Cash awards: 1992 Black Maria Film & Video Festival - 23rd Sinking Creek Film Celebration. Screenings: Independent Focus, WNET - London Film Festival 1992, "Art and Experiment" .

1990 YOU 16mm 15 min. color / sound

Award: Director's Choice, 1990 Black Maria Film and Video Festival

1988 I.D. 16mm 56 min. b&w / sound

Selected by Parabola Film Distribution in Program 4, 1989; Collection of SUNY Binghamton.

1977 TIME'S WAKE (once removed) 16mm 14 min. color / b&w / silent

/ 87 Prize winner, 1988 / 89Black Maria Film and Video Festival


1984 TREMORS 16mm 13 min. color / sound

1982 D'APRES MEG 16mm 17 min. color / sound

1981 CLOSER OUTSIDE 16mm 10 min. color / silent

ARCHITECTURE 16mm 8 min. b&w / silent

1979 MEND 16mm 5 min. b&w / silent

1978 INTERIEUR INTERIORS (TO AK) 16mm 15 min. b&w / silent

Award: Second Prize, San Francisco Art Institute Film Festival, 1979. Purchased by: Collections of the Universities of Wisconsin at Milwaukee - University of Colorado at Boulder - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

1976 WORLD IN FOCUS 16mm 8 min color / silent

Second prize, (1978) Ann Arbor Film Festival

X 16mm 18f/sec. 9 min b&w / silent

WHILE REVOLVED 16mm 18f/sec. 12 min color / silent

1975 SHADE 16mm 16 min. color / silent



LIGHT SHAFT 16mm 8 min b&w / silent

1974 SHUT UP BARBIE 16mm 14 min color / sound



WINDOW WIND CHIMES PART ONE 16mm 27 min color / sound

Films & Videos directed, filmed and edited etc. by Grenier.

Fall 1983 Co-Film Programmer and Catalog Editor, 10 Years of Living Cinema, Collective for Living Cinema.
1974-75 Film Programmer and manager of Avant Garde Film Showcase. Canyon Cinematheque, San Francisco.

Writing on Vincent Grenier
Reynolds, Mike. "Seven Visions by Four", Berkeley Barb, June 6, 1975. Berkeley, CA.

Cooper, Karen. "Film Notes, New West Coast Films, Part II", Film Forum, May 1975, NYC.

Fisher, Lucy. "Kuchar and his Students", Soho Weekly News, May 1975, NYC.

Weiler, A.H. "Film Avant-Garde Bill", New York Times, May 10, 1975, NYC.


Cowan, Bob. "Notes from the New Cinema", Take One, Feb. 2, 1976, Toronto.

Mekas, Jonas. "Movie Journal", Soho Weekly News, Dec. 23, 1976, NYC.

Mekas, Jonas. "Movie Journal", Soho Weekly News, Jan. 6, 1977, NYC.

Cantril, Arthur and Corinne. "An Interview with Vincent Grenier", Cantrills Film Notes, No. 25/26,

May 1977, Australia..

Carroll, Noel. "Simplicity is not Enough", Soho Weekly News, March 9, 1978, NYC.

Locke, John. "Vincent Grenier and J.J. Murphy", Parachute, No.10, 1978, Montréal.

Bérard, Serge. "Vincent Grenier", Parachute, No. 10, 1978, Montréal.

Hoberman, Jim. "Four Films by Vincent Grenier", The Village Voice, June 26, 1978, NYC.

Barvin, Bill. "Four Films by Vincent Grenier", Cinema News, No. 78-5, Sept. / Oct. 1978, Sausalito, CA.

Bernie, Ian. "Canadian Experimental Films in the Seventies", Program Notes, Art Gallery of Ontario,

Toronto, 1978.

Hills, Henry. "Two Films by Vincent Grenier and Abigail Child", Cinema News, No. 79, Sausalito, CA.

Bannon, Anthony. "World in Focus' Blurily Explores Pages of an Atlas", Buffalo Courier, March 28,

1979, Buffalo, NY.

Hoberman, Jim. "Voice Choices", The Village Voice, Nov. 5, 1979, NYC.

Haslanger, Martha. "Vincent Grenier: Recent Works", The Downtown Review, Vol.2, No. 1, Fall/Winter, 1979 / 80, NYC.

Field,Simon. "Films by Vincent Grenier", Time Out, 23-29 May, 1980, London.

Brenner, Tom. "Notes on Recent Cinema and the Logic of Style", The Downtown Review, Spring

1980, NYC.

Howell, George. "Minimalist Films Explore Objects Shifting Identities", Buffalo Evening News,

July 17, 1980, Buffalo, NY.

Weinbren, Graham and Christine Noll Brinckmann. "An Instant of Representation in a film by

Vincent Grenier", Millenium Film Journal, Nos. 7/8/9, Fall / Winter, 1980 / 81, NYC.

Gravel, Claire. "Le Cinema de Vincent Grenier", Le Devoir, Avril 1980, Montréal.

Larouche, Michel. "Vincent Grenier", Parachute, No. 31, Ete 1983, Montréal.

Bendehan, Raphael. "Experimental Cinema in Canada", Vanguard, Summer 1985, Vancouver.

Larouche, Michel. "Vincent Grenier", Le Dictionaire du Cinéma Québecois, 1988, Boréal, Montréal.

Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "Critic's Choice: Films by Vincent Grenier", The Reader, April 7, 1989, Chicago, IL.

Movshovitz, Howie. "Avant Garde Filmmaker Appears at Museum Series", The Denver Post, Nov. 19,

1989, Denver.

Elder, Bruce. "Image and Identity", Toronto, 1990

Turim, Maureen. "The Displacement of Architecture in Avant-Garde Films", Iris. No 12, 1991, Paris.

Gingras, Nicole. "Le Cinéma Invisible", Cinématheque Québecoise, November, 1991, Montréal.

Larouche, Michel. "Le Retour du Cinéma Experimental", 24 Images, No. 58, November 1991, Montréal.

Cartmell, Mike. "Experience Torn to Shreds / Experiments From the Granary, Vincent Grenier, A

Retrospective", Anthology Film Archives, April 24 / 25, 1992, NYC.

Noguez, Dominique. "Le voir et la voix, Le cinéma experimental", Les Cinémas du Canada, Spring

1993, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

Andrea Romeo-Hall, “Reel Art” Feature article on Grenier’s film & video program at Cornell Cinema, with interview. November 12-18, 1998, The Ithaca Times.






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