Bill Viola
Directing
Born January 25, 1951 in Queens, New York, USA
A pioneer in the medium of video art, Bill Viola's work explores the spiritual and perceptual side of human experience. Since 1970 he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances and pieces for television. Works include Hatsu Yume (First Dream), The Passing, and installations Room for St. John of the Cross, The Messenger and The Quintet of the Astonished, recently shown at the National Gallery, London in "Encounters, New Art from Old". A 25-year survey exhibition of his work organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art recently traveled to 6 institutions in the USA and Europe. MacArthur Fellow.
Filmography
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's
Self
Martyrs: Earth
Martyrs: Water
Martyrs: Fire
Martyrs: Air
Martyrs
Inverted Birth
What Is Cinema?
Self
Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity
The Dreamers
The Encounter
Walking on the Edge
Traveling on Foot
A Phrase from Chris
The Innocents
Three Women
Ocean Without a Shore
Poem B (The Guest House)
Basin of Tears
Ablutions
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
Fire Woman
The Tristan Project
The Raft
Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart
Self
Emergence
Going Forth By Day
(segment "The Voyage")
Fire Birth
The Path
The Voyage
Gatekeeper
Four Hands
Catherine's Room
Surrender
The Quintet of the Astonished
Anima
Eternal Return
The Crossing
The Veiling
Interval
Trovoada
Self (voice)
The Greeting
Déserts
The Passing
Slowly Turning Narrative
The Nantes Triptych
Heaven and Earth
The Sleepers
The Stopping Mind
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
Himself
Silent Life
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers
Anthem
Ancient of Days
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
The Reflecting Pool
Performer
Moonblood
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
Guadalcanal Requiem
Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
He Weeps for You
The Space Between the Teeth
Songs of Innocence
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
Red Tape: Collected Works
The Semi-Circular Canals
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