Courtesy of Zora Art Space
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010
Time: 7pm
Venue: Zora Art Space (315 4th Avenue between 3rd and 2nd Streets in Park Slope, Brooklyn)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Louis Grenier, filmmaker, and Emmy® Award winner, has created a striking series of videos. Comical, bold, profoundly peculiar, and rigorously powerful. They consist of visual chronicles and psychiatric explorations with wide-ranging philosophical investigations. His work has been shown extensively in the US, Canada, and Europe, at venues including museums, galleries, universities, festivals, night clubs, and television. Exhibitions include: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash. DC; New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center; Anthology Film Archives; The New Museum; The Knitting Factory; The Mudd Club; Dixon Place; CBS Cable TV; The Kitchen; P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY; Manhattan Neighborhood Network; World’s Fair 1984, New Orleans (traveled). For ABC, INC. he wrote, produced, and directed Meredith Vieira of “The Today Show” in “The Scholastic Video.” Awards include: Newsweek-Bolex FILM CONTEST, recognition of cinema skills in National Affairs category, judge Albert Maysles; New York State Council on the Arts CAPS grant in video; Emmy® Award for Editing, ABC 2000 “Millennium Special.”
BYTE HISTORY by Louis Grenier, 32 Videos, 1 hour
Read on for full screening list:
Short videos
OutPatient Open (5:46) 2008
Bad on Top (:47) 2004
Vengeful Shower (B&W) (:58) 1977
Zen End (1:08), 1978
Hawk Emotion (1:30) 2009
Porous Membrane (:39) 1978
Belgian Shoes (B&W) (1:32) 1977
Poor Box (1:59) 1980
Dream 1, President Toes (1:30) 2007
Toilet Gender (:23) 2005
Butter and Corpses (2:22), 1994
Don’t Ask (:25), 1981
Rage Resume (2:31), 2006
Rude Apprenticeship Program (2:56) 1977
Zip-Up (:30) 1998
Cheap Sushi (:08) 2001
Guilt Smell (B&W), (1:58) 1977
Caught (:50) 1978
Masochist Paranoid (B&W) (:43) 1977
Pistons (:44) 1980
Alphabetical Destiny (3:00) 1978
Yes Parking (:23) 2009
Don’t Put That There (1:28) 1991/2009
Filthiest, Dirtiest (3:04) 2008
ANIMATION
Loads (6:46) 1985
Round and Round (film) (5:01) 1968
NYC ABSTRACTS
White X Asphalt (:39) 2009
Splat (1:54) 2007
Coiled Cords (00:14) 2009
Rhythm in Black (:32) 2009
Sidewalk Shadow and Light (2:16) 2010
Plant with Squares (5:08) 2010
