Bill Viola Filmes
- 1975
Return
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Return is a methodical construction of the approach of an individual towards an unseen goal, which assumes metaphorical significance. Viola moves...
- 2013
What Is Cinema?
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Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...
- 2014
Inverted Birth
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American video artist Bill Viola explores the life cycle as an enveloping whole instead of the hegemonic view of life as a linear progression. The...
- 2018
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
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Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan und Isolde goes far beyond any simple...
- 2016
Mary
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Moving through its five parts, the work describes a cycle of birth through to death, depicting both an eternal, universal Mary, and an earthly Mary...
- 1979
The Reflecting Pool
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Viola's seminal piece, The Reflecting Pool, was made three decades ago on analogue video tape and yet could easily pass for a contemporary digital...
- 2000
Ascension
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A man sinks down rapidly into the watery depths, but his inevitable and extended ascension's entire sequence, which was only a few seconds in real...
- 1994
Déserts
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Déserts was created to accompany a live performance of the work of avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse (1885-1965). The Ensemble Modern,...
- 2004
The Tristan Project
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A four-hour plus video production inspired by Richard Wagner's oeuvre "Tristan und Isolde" and projected during the opera premiere in Paris, in...
- 1984
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers
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"Reverse Television" was created in the mid-1980's by video artist Bill Viola. The 30-second portraits were about portraiture and the idea of a...
- 2017
Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's
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Gerald Fox’s film documents Bill Viola and his wife and close collaborator Kira Perov’s odyssey to create two permanent video...
- 2000
Anima
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Anima, which means “soul” in Latin and is the root of the word animation, is from a series of works inspired by Renaissance paintings of...
- 1992
The Passing
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Internationally acclaimed and award-winning video installation artist Bill Viola juxtaposes personal pictures of his mother's death with images of...
- 2013
Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity
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Two naked, life-sized figures, each around 70 years old, track torches across their aging epidermises as if rooting out the pattern of their pasts....
- 2002
The Path
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- 1979
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
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A documentary short in Chott el-Djerid.
- 2007
Ocean Without a Shore
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Offering a series of encounters at the intersection between life and death, the work documents a succession of people slowly emerging out of darkness...
- 2013
The Dreamers
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Seven vertically mounted screens show seven fully clothed submerged people of different ages, genders and ethnicities floating beneath the surface of...
- 1990
The Stopping Mind
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The video installation's alternation between slow and fast-moving images, as well as soft and loud sounds, represents faltering thought processes. A...
- 2014
Martyrs
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Created by Bill Viola and Kira Perov and opened in May 2014, Martyrs shows four individuals, across four colour vertical plasma screens, being...