Titles by Bill Viola
- Angel's Gate
- Anthem
- Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
- Déserts
- Four Songs
- Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
- I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
- Information
- Memories of Ancestral Power (The Moro Movement in the Solomon Islands)
- Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
- Migration
- Palm Trees on the Moon
- Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
- Red Tape – Collected Works
- Reverse Television – Portraits of Viewers (Compilation Tape)
- Sodium Vapor (including Constellation and Oracle)
- The Passing
- The Reflecting Pool – Collected Work 1977-80
Titles with or about Bill Viola
The Space Between the Teeth
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 dark corridor. With each successive scream, the camera point of view hurtles at high velocity along the length of the hallway in decreasing increments. The corridor and the cinematic structuring of the camera's advance act as metaphors for passage and transition between two worlds, bridged by the individual's cathartic screams. Ultimately, the image of the man at the end of the corridor is transformed into a Polaroid still that is literally washed away.
Portions Produced at: Synapse, Syracuse University. Supervising Engineer/ Videotape Editor: John J. Godfrey. Production Manager: Harriet Abraham. Executive Producer: David Loxton. Thanks: Roman bailey, Shanney Holbech, ZBS Media. Recorded at: ZBS Media, Fort Edward NY for WNET. Partially funded by: New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts
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