Bill Viola Movies
- 1975
Return
Return6.91975HD
Return is a methodical construction of the approach of an individual towards an unseen goal, which assumes metaphorical significance. Viola moves...
- 1979
The Reflecting Pool
The Reflecting Pool5.61979HD
Viola's seminal piece, The Reflecting Pool, was made three decades ago on analogue video tape and yet could easily pass for a contemporary digital...
- 2018
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde02018HD
Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan und Isolde goes far beyond any simple...
- 1979
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)6.31979HD
A documentary short in Chott el-Djerid.
- 1976
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
Migration (for Jack Nelson)61976HD
Migration is an analysis of an image, a metaphorical exercise in perception and representation, illusion and reality, microcosm and macrocosm, nature...
- 1989
Angel's Gate
Angel's Gate61989HD
Writes Viola: "A succession of individual images focusing on mortality, decay and disintegration, are delineated by long, slow fades to black. The...
- 2000
The Quintet of the Astonished
The Quintet of the Astonished02000HD
The Quintet of the Astonished shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of their changing...
- 2013
What Is Cinema?
What Is Cinema?6.22013HD
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...
- 1982
Ancient of Days
Ancient of Days7.11982HD
Ancient of Days is a remarkable series of "canons and fugues for video" that comprises Viola's most sophisticated structural and metaphorical...
- 2005
Basin of Tears
Basin of Tears02005HD
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...
- 2012
Walking on the Edge
Walking on the Edge02012HD
This work represents the inevitable separation of father and son as they take separate paths in their life's journey. Two men arrive in the desert...
- 2003
Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart
Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart72003HD
Hailed as the "Rembrandt of the Video Age," renowned American artist Bill Viola became the first contemporary artist ever to be featured in a one-man...
- 2000
Ascension
Ascension02000HD
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...
- 1984
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers61984HD
"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...
- 2005
Ablutions
Ablutions02005HD
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...
- 2014
Inverted Birth
Inverted Birth02014HD
American video artist Bill Viola explores the life cycle as an enveloping whole instead of the hegemonic view of life as a linear progression. The...
- 2001
Four Hands
Four Hands02001HD
The hands of three generations are seen in this work – a young boy, father, mother and grandmother. Slowly and deliberately, the four pairs of...
- 1970
Eternal Return
Eternal Return01970HD
Video on two flat-screen monitors with sound
- 1990
The Stopping Mind
The Stopping Mind01990HD
The video installation's alternation between slow and fast-moving images, as well as soft and loud sounds, represents faltering thought processes. A...
- 1977
The Wheel of Becoming
The Wheel of Becoming01977HD
Viola describes The Wheel of Becoming as concerning "the notion of the parallel nature of reality, that is, simultaneous events separated in space."...