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)
Vegetable Memory
(Director)
Silent Life
(Director)
Moonblood
(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)
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
(Idea)
Angel's Gate
(Director of Photography)
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
(Director of Photography)
The Raft
(Writer)
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
(Editor)
Angel's Gate
(Idea)
Guadalcanal Requiem
(Director of Photography)
Angel's Gate
(Editor)
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
(Idea)
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
(Director)
The Reflecting Pool
(Director)
The Greeting
(Director)
Fire Woman
(Director)
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
(Writer)
The Space Between the Teeth
(Director)
Sodium Vapor
(Director)
Junkyard Levitation
(Director)
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
(Director)
Songs of Innocence
(Director)
Truth Through Mass Individuation
(Director)
Four Songs
(Director)
A Phrase from Chris
(Director)
A Million Other Things (2)
(Director)
Red Tape: Collected Works
(Director)
The Semi-Circular Canals
(Director)
Playing Soul Music to My Freckles
(Director)
A Non-Dairy Creamer
(Director)
Return
(Director)
Déserts
(Director)
Heaven and Earth
(Director)
Going Forth By Day
(Director)
Surrender
(Director)
Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity
(Director)
Inverted Birth
(Director)
The Dreamers
(Director)
Three Women
(Director)
The Tristan Project
(Director)
The Path
(Director)
Fire Birth
(Director)
The Crossing
(Director)
The Wheel of Becoming
(Director)
Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
(Director)
Angel's Gate
(Director)
The Morning After the Night of Power
(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
(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)
The Reflecting Pool
(Editor)
Ascension
(Director)
Déserts
(Writer)
Déserts
(Director of Photography)
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
(Editor)
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
(Producer)
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
(Director of Photography)
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
(Writer)
Emergence
(Director)
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
(Director)
The Encounter
(Director)
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers
(Director)
Anthem
(Writer)
The Sleepers
(Director)
Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979
(Director)
The Crossing
(Director)
Information
(Director)
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
(Creator)
Walking on the Edge
(Director)
The Quintet of the Astonished
(Director)
Anima
(Director)
Ablutions
(Director)
Catherine's Room
(Director)
Four Hands
(Director)
Martyrs: Fire
(Director)
Martyrs: Earth
(Director)
Martyrs: Water
(Director)
Basin of Tears
(Director)
Martyrs: Air
(Director)
The Innocents
(Director)
Traveling on Foot
(Director)