Bill Viola Movies

  • 1977
    Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers

    Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers

    Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers

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    Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers is a collection of works that address the desire to transcend the perceptual and cognitive structures of...

    Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
  • 2000
    Ascension

    Ascension

    Ascension

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    A man sinks down rapidly into the watery depths, but his inevitable and extended ascension's entire sequence, which was only a few seconds in real...

    Ascension
  • 1973
    Information

    Information

    Information

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    Information is an exercise in technological reflexivity, an early investigation of the material presence of the electronic medium. From a technical...

    Information
  • 2000
    Eternal Return

    Eternal Return

    Eternal Return

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    Video on two flat-screen monitors with sound

    Eternal Return
  • 2001
    Four Hands

    Four Hands

    Four Hands

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    The hands of three generations are seen in this work – a young boy, father, mother and grandmother. Slowly and deliberately, the four pairs of...

    Four Hands
  • 2014
    Martyrs: Earth

    Martyrs: Earth

    Martyrs: Earth

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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: Earth
  • 1995
    The Greeting

    The Greeting

    The Greeting

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    Inspired by a painting of the Visitation (1528-29) by the Italian artist Pontormo, The Greeting is a video image sequence involving the interactions...

    The Greeting
  • 1975
    Playing Soul Music to My Freckles

    Playing Soul Music to My Freckles

    Playing Soul Music to My Freckles

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    Playing Soul Music to My Freckles is a minimalist performance in which a bare loudspeaker, playing an Aretha Franklin song, is seen on the artist's...

    Playing Soul Music to My Freckles
  • 1981
    Hatsu Yume (First Dream)

    Hatsu Yume (First Dream)

    Hatsu Yume (First Dream)

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    With a title referring to Japanese folklore, wherein things done on the first day of a new year are significant, the film - an ardent dream entirely...

    Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
  • 1980
    Vegetable Memory

    Vegetable Memory

    Vegetable Memory

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    The title of Vegetable Memory derives from the writings of Jalaludin Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet. Evolving as what Viola terms a "kind of...

    Vegetable Memory
  • 1977
    Memories Of Ancestral Power

    Memories Of Ancestral Power

    Memories Of Ancestral Power

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    The rituals and philosophies of indigenous non-Western cultures recur throughout Viola's work. In 1976, he travelled to the Solomon Islands with...

    Memories Of Ancestral Power
  • 1977
    Sweet Light

    Sweet Light

    Sweet Light

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    Using a camera moving along a predetermined path to create the effect of a simulated zoom, Sweet Light refers to the seduction of illumination,...

    Sweet Light
  • 1994
    Déserts

    Déserts

    Déserts

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    Déserts was created to accompany a live performance of the work of avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse (1885-1965). The Ensemble Modern,...

    Déserts
  • 1975
    A Non-Dairy Creamer

    A Non-Dairy Creamer

    A Non-Dairy Creamer

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    Viola describes A Non-Dairy Creamer as "the eradication of the individual by self-consumption." The artist's face, visible only as a reflected image...

    A Non-Dairy Creamer
  • 2003
    Emergence

    Emergence

    Emergence

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    Emergence
  • 1989
    Angel's Gate

    Angel's Gate

    Angel's Gate

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    Writes Viola: "A succession of individual images focusing on mortality, decay and disintegration, are delineated by long, slow fades to black. The...

    Angel's Gate
  • 2000
    Anima

    Anima

    Anima

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    Anima, which means “soul” in Latin and is the root of the word animation, is from a series of works inspired by Renaissance paintings of...

    Anima
  • 1977
    The Wheel of Becoming

    The Wheel of Becoming

    The Wheel of Becoming

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    Viola describes The Wheel of Becoming as concerning "the notion of the parallel nature of reality, that is, simultaneous events separated in space."...

    The Wheel of Becoming
  • 1984
    Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers

    Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers

    Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers

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    "Reverse Television" was created in the mid-1980's by video artist Bill Viola. The 30-second portraits were about portraiture and the idea of a...

    Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers
  • 1996
    The Crossing

    The Crossing

    The Crossing

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    In this work's left panel, The Crossing (1996), a walking male figure is consumed by fire on a 27-foot vertical plasma screen projection while in the...

    The Crossing

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