Bill Viola Movies
- 2026

Das Theater im Sucher - Die Fotografin Ruth Walz
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For half a century, photographer Ruth Walz has been immersing herself in Europe’s theaters and opera houses, capturing the action on stage with...
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- 1995

Trovoada
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- 2018

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
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Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan und Isolde goes far beyond any simple...
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- 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,...
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- 2013

What Is Cinema?
What Is Cinema?6.42013HD
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...
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- 1970

The Deluge
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- 2017

Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's
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Gerald Fox’s film documents Bill Viola and his wife and close collaborator Kira Perov’s odyssey to create two permanent video...
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- 1984

Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers
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"Reverse Television" was created in the mid-1980's by video artist Bill Viola. The 30-second portraits were about portraiture and the idea of a...
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- 1981

Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
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With a title referring to Japanese folklore, wherein things done on the first day of a new year are significant, the film - an ardent dream entirely...
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- 1986

I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
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"I Do Not Know What It Is that I Am Like" juxtaposes images of animals, both wild and domestic, and natural environments with human activity as it...
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- 1979

Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
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Driven by a quest to capture a landscape reduced to flatness and sky, Viola travels to Chott El-Djerid. The film opens with images of snowy prairies...
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- 2003

Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart
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Hailed as the "Rembrandt of the Video Age," renowned American artist Bill Viola became the first contemporary artist ever to be featured in a one-man...
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- 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...
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- 1979

The Reflecting Pool
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Viola's seminal piece, The Reflecting Pool, was made three decades ago on analogue video tape and yet could easily pass for a contemporary digital...
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- 1976

Migration (for Jack Nelson)
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Migration is an analysis of an image, a metaphorical exercise in perception and representation, illusion and reality, microcosm and macrocosm, nature...
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- 2006

Poem B (The Guest House)
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In this artwork, we witness the residue of a life through the objects and structures that surround a solitary older woman: color and black-and-white...
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- 2013

The Dreamers
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Seven vertically mounted screens show seven fully clothed submerged people of different ages, genders and ethnicities floating beneath the surface of...
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- 1983

Anthem
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A series of shots depicting "America" are laid over a classic Gregorian Chant recreated through the distortion of a woman's screams.
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- 1975

A Non-Dairy Creamer
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Viola describes A Non-Dairy Creamer as "the eradication of the individual by self-consumption." The artist's face, visible only as a reflected image...
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- 2005

Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)82005HD
The ascent of the soul in the space after death as it is awakened and drawn up in a backwards flowing waterfall.
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