Bill Viola
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.
What Is Cinema?
as SelfUsing the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock...
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The Reflecting Pool
as PerformerViola's seminal piece, The Reflecting Pool, was made three decades ago on analogue video tape...
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The Voyage
as GatekeeperThe fourth video in the five-part digital-image cycle project "Going Forth By Day" (2002), "The...
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Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's
as SelfGerald Fox’s film documents Bill Viola and his wife and close collaborator Kira Perov’s odyssey...
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I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
as Himself"I Do Not Know What It Is that I Am Like" juxtaposes images of animals, both wild and domestic,...
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Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart
as SelfHailed as the "Rembrandt of the Video Age," renowned American artist Bill Viola became the first...
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