Bill Viola

Explore Bill Viola's movie filmography on ReelBot, including film credits, roles, release dates, ratings, and movie details.

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