Bill Viola
AKA:
0.6027
1951-01-25
Queens, New York, USA
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.
Crew Roles
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
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
Interval
Director
Poem B (The Guest House)
Director
Going Forth By Day
Writer
Going Forth By Day
Cinematography
Going Forth By Day
Editor
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