Bill Viola

Bill Viola is a major figure in video art. His works, which have received international recognition, are distinguished by a confluence of allegorical resonance and virtuosic control of technology. Viola explores video's temporal and optical systems to metaphorically examine modes of perception and cognition, and ultimately chart a symbolic quest for self. His ritualized investigations of visual and acoustic phenomena, illusion and reality, achieve a poetic articulation of visionary transcendence.   full biography

Titles

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1973, 29:35 min, color, sound
 
1975, 30 min, color, sound
 
Playing Soul Music to My Freckles
1975, 2:46 min, color, sound
 
A Non-Dairy Creamer
1975, 5:19 min, color, sound
 
The Semi-Circular Canals
1975, 8:51 min, color, sound
 
A Million Other Things (2)
1975, 4:35 min, color, sound
 
Return
1975, 7:43 min, color, sound
 
1976, 33 min, color, sound
 
Junkyard Levitation
1976, 3:11 min, color, sound
 
Songs of Innocence
1976, 9:34 min, color, sound
 
The Space Between the Teeth
1976, 9:10 min, color, sound
 
Truth Through Mass Individuation
1976, 10:13 min, color, sound
 
1976/2010, 7 min, color, sound
 
1977, 35:19 min, color, sound
 
1977, 29 min, color, sound
 
The Wheel of Becoming
1977, 7:40 min, color, sound
 
The Morning After the Night of Power
1977, 10:44 min, color, sound
 
Sweet Light
1977, 9:08 min, color, sound
 
1977, 26:06 min, color, sound
 
1977-80, 62 min, color, sound
 
The Reflecting Pool
1977-79, 7 min, color, sound
 
Moonblood
1979-80, 12:48 min, color, sound
 
Silent Life
1979, 13:14 min, color, sound
 
Ancient of Days
1979-81, 12:21 min, color, sound
 
Vegetable Memory
1978-80, 15:13 min, color, sound
 
1979, 28 min, color, sound
 
1979, released 1986, 15:14 min, color, sound
 
1981, 56 min, color, sound
 
1983, 11:30 min, color, sound
 
1983, 19:11 min, b&w, sound
 
1984, 15 min, color, sound
 
1986, 89 min, color, sound
 
1989, 4:48 min, color, sound
 
1991, 54:22 min, b&w, sound
 
1994, 28:09 min, color, sound
 
 

Titles with or about Bill Viola

 
 
1994, 26 min, color, sound
 
 

See also

 
 
1986, 53:40 min, color, sound