Bill Viola
Directing
Biography
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.
As actor 13
Trovoada
1995
What Is Cinema?
2013
The Reflecting Pool
1979
Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's
2017
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
1986
Return
1975
Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart
2003
The Voyage
2002
Going Forth By Day
2002
Processing the Signal
The Deluge
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
1976
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
1983
On the crew 83
Mary
2016
The Reflecting Pool
1979
The Raft
2004
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
2018
The Dreamers
2013
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
1986
Martyrs: Air
2014
The Tristan Project
2004
Déserts
1994
Ablutions
2005
Guadalcanal Requiem
1977
Return
1975
Sodium Vapor
1986
The Voyage
2002
Going Forth By Day
2002
The Crossing
1996
Ascension
2000
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers
1984
Four Hands
2001
Martyrs: Fire
2014
The Veiling
1995
The Greeting
1995
Martyrs
2014
Ancient of Days
1982
Angel's Gate
1989
The Space Between the Teeth
1976
Surrender
2001
Three Women
2008
The Encounter
2012
Sweet Light
1977
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
1979
Poem B (The Guest House)
2006
The Sleepers
1992
Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979
1979
Fire Woman
2005
The Path
2002
Walking on the Edge
2012
Martyrs: Earth
2014
Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity
2013
Ocean Without a Shore
2007
The Innocents
2008
Eternal Return
2000
Catherine's Room
2001
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
1976
Anima
2000
Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
1977
Basin of Tears
2005
Fire Birth
2002
Slowly Turning Narrative
1992
The Crossing
Interval
1995
Silent Life
1986
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
1981
Songs of Innocence
1976
Moonblood
1979
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
2005
Emergence
2003
Martyrs: Water
2014
The Morning After the Night of Power
1977
Heaven and Earth
1992
Junkyard Levitation
1976
He Weeps for You
1977
Vegetable Memory
1980
Traveling on Foot
2012
Red Tape: Collected Works
1975
The Stopping Mind
1990
The Semi-Circular Canals
1975
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
1983
The Nantes Triptych
1992
Anthem
1983
The Quintet of the Astonished
2000
A Non-Dairy Creamer
1975
A Phrase from Chris
2011
Information
1973
Memories Of Ancestral Power
1977
The Silent Sea
2002
Four Songs
1976
Playing Soul Music to My Freckles So They Won't Get Lonely
1975
The Wheel of Becoming
1977
A Million Other Things (2)
1975
Inverted Birth
2014
The Passing
1992
Truth Through Mass Individuation
1976