Louis Grenier - Air date: 06-03-08

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 a variety of venues including museums, galleries, universities, festivals, night clubs, and television. Exhibitions include: New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center; Anthology Film Archives; Manhattan Neighborhood Network TV; The New Museum; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash. DC; CBS Cable TV; World's Fair 1984, New Orleans (traveled); The Kitchen; P.S.1, Long Island City, NY; and Dixon Place. For ABC, INC. he wrote, produced, and directed Meredith Vieira from "The View" 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."

He received his Bachelor degree in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University, attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, taught at The Fashion Institute of Technology, and was Director of Special Projects at The Center for the Media Arts.

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[deniseakamin]

looks good louis