Bill Viola
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.
The Voyage
(Gatekeeper)
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
Return
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
(Himself)
Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart
(Self)
The Reflecting Pool
(Performer)
Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's
(Self)
What Is Cinema?
(Self)
Going Forth By Day
((segment "The Voyage"))
Processing the Signal
(Himself)
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
Trovoada
(Self (voice))
The Deluge
The Stopping Mind
(Director)
The Passing
(Director)
Moonblood
(Director)
Vegetable Memory
(Director)
Silent Life
(Director)
Slowly Turning Narrative
(Director)
Memories Of Ancestral Power
(Director)
Anthem
(Director)
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
(Director)
The Veiling
(Director)
Ancient of Days
(Director)
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
(Director)
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
(Director)
The Nantes Triptych
(Director)
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
(Director of Photography)
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
(Editor)
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
(Idea)
The Raft
(Writer)
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
(Idea)
Angel's Gate
(Idea)
Angel's Gate
(Editor)
Angel's Gate
(Director of Photography)
Guadalcanal Requiem
(Director of Photography)
The Reflecting Pool
(Director)
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
(Director)
The Greeting
(Director)
Fire Woman
(Director)
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
(Writer)
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
(Director)
A Phrase from Chris
(Director)
Truth Through Mass Individuation
(Director)
The Space Between the Teeth
(Director)
Songs of Innocence
(Director)
Junkyard Levitation
(Director)
Four Songs
(Director)
Sodium Vapor
(Director)
Playing Soul Music to My Freckles So They Won't Get Lonely
(Director)
A Non-Dairy Creamer
(Director)
The Semi-Circular Canals
(Director)
A Million Other Things (2)
(Director)
Return
(Director)
Red Tape: Collected Works
(Director)
Déserts
(Director)
Heaven and Earth
(Director)
Surrender
(Director)
Going Forth By Day
(Director)
Inverted Birth
(Director)
Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity
(Director)
Three Women
(Director)
The Dreamers
(Director)
The Tristan Project
(Director)
Fire Birth
(Director)
The Path
(Director)
The Crossing
(Director)
Sweet Light
(Director)
Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
(Director)
The Wheel of Becoming
(Director)
Angel's Gate
(Director)
The Morning After the Night of Power
(Director)
Déserts
(Editor)
Return
(Writer)
The Raft
(Director)
Martyrs
(Director)
He Weeps for You
(Director)
Ocean Without a Shore
(Director)
Eternal Return
(Director)
Mary
(Director)
Mary
(Writer)
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
(Producer)
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
(Cinematography)
The Voyage
(Director)
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
(Director)
The Reflecting Pool
(Writer)
The Reflecting Pool
(Director of Photography)
Ascension
(Director)
Déserts
(Director of Photography)
Déserts
(Writer)
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
(Writer)
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
(Director of Photography)
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
(Editor)
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
(Producer)
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
(Director)
Emergence
(Director)
The Encounter
(Director)
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers
(Director)
Anthem
(Writer)
Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979
(Director)
The Sleepers
(Director)
The Crossing
(Director)
Information
(Director)
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
(Creator)
Catherine's Room
(Director)
Anima
(Director)
Four Hands
(Director)
The Quintet of the Astonished
(Director)
Ablutions
(Director)
Walking on the Edge
(Director)
Martyrs: Earth
(Director)
Martyrs: Air
(Director)
Martyrs: Fire
(Director)
Martyrs: Water
(Director)
Basin of Tears
(Director)
The Innocents
(Director)
Traveling on Foot
(Director)
Interval
(Director)
Poem B (The Guest House)
(Director)
Going Forth By Day
(Writer)
Going Forth By Day
(Cinematography)
Going Forth By Day
(Editor)