Bill Viola
Directing
1951-01-25 · Queens, New York, USA
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.
Filmography
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
2018 · Movie
Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's
2017 · Movie
Mary
2016 · Movie
Martyrs: Earth
2014 · Movie
Martyrs: Water
2014 · Movie
Martyrs: Fire
2014 · Movie
Martyrs: Air
2014 · Movie
Martyrs
2014 · Movie
Inverted Birth
2014 · Movie
What Is Cinema?
2013 · Movie
Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity
2013 · Movie
The Dreamers
2013 · Movie
The Encounter
2012 · Movie
Walking on the Edge
2012 · Movie
Traveling on Foot
2012 · Movie
A Phrase from Chris
2011 · Movie
The Innocents
2008 · Movie
Three Women
2008 · Movie
Ocean Without a Shore
2007 · Movie
Poem B (The Guest House)
2006 · Movie
Basin of Tears
2005 · Movie
Ablutions
2005 · Movie
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
2005 · Movie
Fire Woman
2005 · Movie
The Tristan Project
2004 · Movie
The Raft
2004 · Movie
Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart
2003 · Movie
Emergence
2003 · Movie
Going Forth By Day
2002 · Movie
Fire Birth
2002 · Movie
The Path
2002 · Movie
The Voyage
2002 · Movie
The Silent Sea
2002 · Movie
Four Hands
2001 · Movie
Catherine's Room
2001 · Movie
Surrender
2001 · Movie
The Quintet of the Astonished
2000 · Movie
Anima
2000 · Movie
Ascension
2000 · Movie
Eternal Return
2000 · Movie
The Crossing
1996 · Movie
The Veiling
1995 · Movie
Interval
1995 · Movie
Trovoada
1995 · Movie
The Greeting
1995 · Movie
Déserts
1994 · Movie
The Passing
1992 · Movie
The Sleepers
1992 · Movie
Slowly Turning Narrative
1992 · Movie
The Nantes Triptych
1992 · Movie
Heaven and Earth
1992 · Movie
The Stopping Mind
1990 · Movie
Angel's Gate
1989 · Movie
Sodium Vapor
1986 · Movie
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
1986 · Movie
Silent Life
1986 · Movie
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers
1984 · Movie
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
1983 · Movie
Anthem
1983 · Movie
Ancient of Days
1982 · Movie
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
1981 · Movie
Vegetable Memory
1980 · Movie
The Reflecting Pool
1979 · Movie
Moonblood
1979 · Movie
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
1979 · Movie
Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979
1979 · Movie
Memories Of Ancestral Power
1977 · Movie
The Morning After the Night of Power
1977 · Movie
Guadalcanal Requiem
1977 · Movie
The Wheel of Becoming
1977 · Movie
Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
1977 · Movie
Sweet Light
1977 · Movie
He Weeps for You
1977 · Movie
The Space Between the Teeth
1976 · Movie
Junkyard Levitation
1976 · Movie
Songs of Innocence
1976 · Movie
Truth Through Mass Individuation
1976 · Movie
Four Songs
1976 · Movie
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
1976 · Movie
Return
1975 · Movie
Playing Soul Music to My Freckles So They Won't Get Lonely
1975 · Movie
Red Tape: Collected Works
1975 · Movie
The Semi-Circular Canals
1975 · Movie
A Million Other Things (2)
1975 · Movie
A Non-Dairy Creamer
1975 · Movie
Information
1973 · Movie
Processing the Signal
Movie
The Deluge
Movie
The Crossing
Movie