French-Canadian filmmaker Vincent Grenier is a leading avant-garde artist whose films explore the ambiguities of material objects when presented as filmed images; within this minimalist framework, he achieves both humor and suspense.
Time's Wake: “Ste. Petronille, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec.... It is about the past, an endearing but removed artifact...about the participating, recording eye, about people who go to family reunions, how lively and frozen in time they are.” (V.G.) (1974-84, 15 mins, Silent, Color)
D'Apres Meg: A film in four sections, “constructed from the tension left by the generally quirky or awkward gestures of some preoccupied people.” (V.G.) (1982, 17 mins, Color)
Tremors: “Filming a cityscape through the Kinemacolor process, variable filters and a water lens, the city is reinterpreted to appear paradoxically at once more real and as an occurrence from the past.” (V.G.) (1984, 13 mins, Color)
Shut Up Barbie: Starring Kate Turnbull and Ann Knutson, shot in California. The film “revolves around a seven-year-old little girl, her numerous Barbie Dolls and paraphernalia. Where the manipulated need to imitate gives way to restlessness and the unreal.” (V.G.) (1974, 14 mins, Color)