Bill Viola Movies
- 1976
The Space Between the Teeth
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The Space Between the Teeth is based on the structure of acoustic phenomena and the psychological dynamics of a man screaming at the end of a long...
- 1990
The Stopping Mind
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The video installation's alternation between slow and fast-moving images, as well as soft and loud sounds, represents faltering thought processes. A...
- 1977
Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
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Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers is a collection of works that address the desire to transcend the perceptual and cognitive structures of...
- 2000
Anima
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Anima, which means “soul” in Latin and is the root of the word animation, is from a series of works inspired by Renaissance paintings of...
- 1995
The Greeting
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Inspired by a painting of the Visitation (1528-29) by the Italian artist Pontormo, The Greeting is a video image sequence involving the interactions...
- 2012
Walking on the Edge
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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...
- 1980
Vegetable Memory
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The title of Vegetable Memory derives from the writings of Jalaludin Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet. Evolving as what Viola terms a "kind of...
- 2014
Martyrs: Earth
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Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) consists of four plasma screens, each showing a single figure who is progressively overwhelmed by the onslaught of...
- 1979
Moonblood
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Viola describes Moonblood as "an expression of the feminine principle, a work in three parts relating to a personal concept of woman and mother. Day...
- 1989
Angel's Gate
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Writes Viola: "A succession of individual images focusing on mortality, decay and disintegration, are delineated by long, slow fades to black. The...
- 1976
Junkyard Levitation
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Junkyard Levitation is a visual pun on the concept of "mind over matter," as a man attempts to levitate while lying prone in a junkyard. Writes...
- 1979
Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979
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Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979, by incorporating a large body of water, with video and sound recordings of nature, was pioneering in its use of...
- 2014
Martyrs: Fire
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Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) consists of four plasma screens, each showing a single figure who is progressively overwhelmed by the onslaught of...
- 1975
The Semi-Circular Canals
The Semi-Circular Canals01975HD
The title of The Semi-Circular Canals refers to the portion of the human ear that regulates balance. Viola constructed a platform on which he and the...
- 2014
Martyrs: Water
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Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) consists of four plasma screens, each showing a single figure who is progressively overwhelmed by the onslaught of...
- 2002
Going Forth By Day
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The film is a five-part projection-based installation, which addresses the complexity of human existence through the themes of individuality,...
- 1992
Heaven and Earth
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Continuously running video installation: in a small alcove, a wood column extends from the floor and ceiling, with a gap in the center formed by two...
- 1977
He Weeps for You
He Weeps for You01977HD
A drop of water emerging from a small brass valve is magnified by a video camera and projected on a large screen. The close-up image reveals that the...
- 1992
Slowly Turning Narrative
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Slowly Turning Narrative includes two projections on a large central rotating screen. One presents images of virtually everything that constitutes...
- 1976
Songs of Innocence
Songs of Innocence01976HD
Songs of Innocence, which directly references the visionary Romanticism of William Blake, is haunted with symbolic transformations, as shifting light...