Tabula Rasa

“Revisiting footage he shot more than ten years ago in an American high school, Vincent Grenier combines deftly manipulated and layered images with oblique commentaries delivered by students and instructors. The socializing process of education is made visible in the architecture, surfaces and colours of the school, ‘in the ambiguous quality of appearances so assiduously cultivated by institutions’ (Grenier).” – Images Festival, 2005 Initial footage shot with the helpof a production grant from the Canada Council. Selected screenings & awards: Jury’s Citation (2nd Prize), Black Maria Film & Video Festival; 2nd Prize, Media City 11, Windsor, Ontario; Views from the Avant-Garde, New York Film Festival, 2004; Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival, Chicago, 2004; Images Festival, Toronto, 2005; San Francisco International FIlm Festival; Athens International Film & Video Festival, Ohio