Bill Viola Movies

  • 2004
    The Tristan Project

    The Tristan Project

    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...

    The Tristan Project
  • 2002
    The Path

    The Path

    The Path

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    The Path
  • 1986
    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

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    "I Do Not Know What It Is that I Am Like" juxtaposes images of animals, both wild and domestic, and natural environments with human activity as it...

    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
  • 2005
    Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)

    Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)

    Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)

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    The ascent of the soul in the space after death as it is awakened and drawn up in a backwards flowing waterfall.

    Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
  • 1976
    Four Songs

    Four Songs

    Four Songs

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    In terming these tapes "songs," Viola references the relation of his work to musical structures and to the poetics of Romanticism. 4 tapes (Junkyard...

    Four Songs
  • 2011
    A Phrase from Chris

    A Phrase from Chris

    A Phrase from Chris

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    “Transfiguration refers to a rare process whereby both the substance and essence of an entity is reconfigured. In physical terms, a...

    A Phrase from Chris
  • 2002
    The Voyage

    The Voyage

    The Voyage

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    The fourth video in the five-part digital-image cycle project "Going Forth By Day" (2002), "The Voyage" features an elderly man who is dying,...

    The Voyage
  • 1986
    Sodium Vapor

    Sodium Vapor

    Sodium Vapor

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    Writes Viola: "Sodium Vapor was recorded over a period of several weeks in the hours between one and five in the morning on the streets of an...

    Sodium Vapor
  • 2002
    Fire Birth

    Fire Birth

    Fire Birth

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    Fire Birth
  • 1992
    The Sleepers

    The Sleepers

    The Sleepers

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    The Sleepers is a startlingly dark vision of sleeping people suspended under water, unable to make contact with the world outside. Viola describes...

    The Sleepers
  • 2005
    Basin of Tears

    Basin of Tears

    Basin of Tears

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    In Basin of Tears, two videos are projected side by side on two adjacent screens mounted to the wall. This video diptych creates an incredible...

    Basin of Tears
  • 1982
    Ancient of Days

    Ancient of Days

    Ancient of Days

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    Ancient of Days is a remarkable series of "canons and fugues for video" that comprises Viola's most sophisticated structural and metaphorical...

    Ancient of Days
  • 1995
    The Veiling

    The Veiling

    The Veiling

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    The sculptural video installation consists of nine scrims suspended parallel to one another. Projectors at either end of the row of scrims show...

    The Veiling
  • 2005
    Ablutions

    Ablutions

    Ablutions

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    This diptych opens with the image of two parallel streams of falling water. A female torso moves into the background of the left screen while a male...

    Ablutions
  • 2000
    The Quintet of the Astonished

    The Quintet of the Astonished

    The Quintet of the Astonished

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    The Quintet of the Astonished shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of their changing...

    The Quintet of the Astonished
  • 1977
    Guadalcanal Requiem

    Guadalcanal Requiem

    Guadalcanal Requiem

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    One of Paik’s most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history,...

    Guadalcanal Requiem
  • 1975
    Red Tape: Collected Works

    Red Tape: Collected Works

    Red Tape: Collected Works

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    Red Tape -- Collected Works Bill Viola 1975, 30 min, color, sound Playing Soul Music to My Freckles 1975, 2:46 min, color, sound A Non-Dairy...

    Red Tape: Collected Works
  • 2014
    Martyrs: Air

    Martyrs: Air

    Martyrs: Air

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    Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) consists of four plasma screens, each showing a single figure who is progressively overwhelmed by the onslaught of...

    Martyrs: Air
  • 1976
    The Space Between the Teeth

    The Space Between the Teeth

    The Space Between the Teeth

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    The Space Between the Teeth is based on the structure of acoustic phenomena and the psychological dynamics of a man screaming at the end of a long...

    The Space Between the Teeth
  • 2007
    Ocean Without a Shore

    Ocean Without a Shore

    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...

    Ocean Without a Shore

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