Film Format: 16mm

  • May 35

    A haunting commemoration of the Tiananmen Square uprisings made from fragments of censored archival imagery transferred onto film using razor blades and scotch tape. “May 35” speaks to the difficulty of remembering in the absence of memory, especially when June 4 histories have been censored and obscured. It is a tribute to the thousands of lives devastated by this upheaval. Sound Design: Kadet Kuhne

  • Four Short Animated Films

    Four short animated films on one reel: The Magician’s Hat: A magician discovers more than a white rabbit in his hat with hilarious results. Making Faces: A simple blank figure is transformed into eighty different characters. A study of the variety of human faces. Alleycats: Alleycats are disappearing all over town! The solution to this mystery may lie behind the curtains of an apartment building. Computer animation. Eye to Eye: In this computer-animated film a man loses control of the parts of his face. Note: Also available from the filmmaker are four flipbooks from the Books That Move Series.

  • Nadia’s Songs

    “Nadia’s Songs” follows a teenage boy who finds a collection of CDs that used to belong to a stranger known only as Nadia. In their shared taste in music he imagines her life story while in turn reflecting on his own. One part essay and one part love letter to second-hand music shops, “Nadia’s Songs” explores the many ways we can forge our identities through the art we consume and things we collect as young adults.

  • The Adobe House

    Adobe is a building material made from earth and other organic materials. It is among the earliest building materials, used throughout the world. This film is hand-processed in sage, mint, eucalyptus, and compost. Filmed at Site + Cycle 2018 at Anima Casa Rural, San Isidro Mazatepec, Mexico. Sound by Linus Winstam (aka Dj Bruce Leenus).

  • I Love My Work

    Some of life’s little obstacles that get in the way of a girl and what she really wants: to do her work.

  • Fracture

    “Variously relaxed, apprehensive, or relieved, the fractured gestures of a woman and a baby are played backward and forward, frame by frame, like a musical phrase.” -Ian Birnie “‘Fracture’ presents the viewer with a narrative riddle, one which isrelated directly to the nature of parallel construction … The narrative construction (and I emphasize the latter word) is comprised of 18 shots. These shots are, in fact, optical renditions of two primary shots or scenes which are the woman and child, and the male ‘intruder’ … ‘Fracture’ successfully isolates and exploits basic cinematic codes and conventions, such as screen direction and…

  • In The Backyarden

    An in-camera visual exploration of a little girl, her garden, and all that pertains.

  • Closer Outside

    “CLOSER OUTSIDE, the highlight of the program is an amazing film. Grenier, whose background includes painting, has a powerful command over color as an emotional hook, giving the film an anticipation and suspensefulness not generally associated with minimalist films. Just as the viewer is drawn into the sensuous presence of a setting, suddenly colors shift, objects seem dislocated in space, identities change, all creating an almost visceral shock of surprise to the viewer…” -George Howell, Buffalo EveningNews.

  • Catch

    “Catch is a fragmented observation on hidden reflective surfaces, the corner of a dormant television screen, a window…” -Mike Reynolds, Berkeley Barb

  • Mend

    Is it happening in the screening room or on the screen; in a snowstorm or inside; what isn’t surrounding and what is? From filming Ann sewing, on a grey winter day.