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 Stopping Mind
(Director)
The Passing
(Director)
Silent Life
(Director)
Moonblood
(Director)
Vegetable Memory
(Director)
Slowly Turning Narrative
(Director)
Memories Of Ancestral Power
(Director)
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
(Director)
Anthem
(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)
(Idea)
The Raft
(Writer)
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
(Editor)
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
(Idea)
Angel's Gate
(Director of Photography)
Angel's Gate
(Idea)
Angel's Gate
(Editor)
Guadalcanal Requiem
(Director of Photography)
The Greeting
(Director)
The Reflecting Pool
(Director)
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
(Director)
Fire Woman
(Director)
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
(Writer)
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
(Director)
Truth Through Mass Individuation
(Director)
The Space Between the Teeth
(Director)
A Phrase from Chris
(Director)
Sodium Vapor
(Director)
Four Songs
(Director)
Junkyard Levitation
(Director)
Songs of Innocence
(Director)
A Non-Dairy Creamer
(Director)
Playing Soul Music to My Freckles
(Director)
A Million Other Things (2)
(Director)
Red Tape: Collected Works
(Director)
Return
(Director)
The Semi-Circular Canals
(Director)
Déserts
(Director)
Heaven and Earth
(Director)
Inverted Birth
(Director)
Going Forth By Day
(Director)
Surrender
(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)
The Wheel of Becoming
(Director)
Angel's Gate
(Director)
The Morning After the Night of Power
(Director)
Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
(Director)
Sweet Light
(Director)
Déserts
(Editor)
Return
(Writer)
The Raft
(Director)
Martyrs
(Director)
He Weeps for You
(Director)
Ocean Without a Shore
(Director)
Eternal Return
(Director)
Mary
(Writer)
Mary
(Director)
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
(Editor)
The Reflecting Pool
(Director of Photography)
The Reflecting Pool
(Writer)
Ascension
(Director)
Déserts
(Director of Photography)
Déserts
(Writer)
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
(Writer)
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
(Director of Photography)
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
(Producer)
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
(Editor)
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)
Ablutions
(Director)
Anima
(Director)
Walking on the Edge
(Director)
Martyrs: Water
(Director)
Martyrs: Earth
(Director)
Basin of Tears
(Director)
Martyrs: Air
(Director)
The Quintet of the Astonished
(Director)
The Innocents
(Director)
Martyrs: Fire
(Director)
Catherine's Room
(Director)
Four Hands
(Director)