Bill Viola
Born: 1951-01-25 in Queens, New York, USA
Known For: Directing
Biography
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
2018
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde ... (Director)
2017
2016
- Mary ... (Director)
2014
- Inverted Birth ... (Director)
- Martyrs ... (Director)
- Martyrs: Fire ... (Director)
- Martyrs: Water ... (Director)
- Martyrs: Air ... (Director)
- Martyrs: Earth ... (Director)
2013
- What Is Cinema? as Self
- The Dreamers ... (Director)
- Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity ... (Director)
2012
- The Encounter ... (Director)
- Walking on the Edge ... (Director)
- Traveling on Foot ... (Director)
2011
- A Phrase from Chris ... (Director)
2008
- Three Women ... (Director)
- The Innocents ... (Director)
2007
- Ocean Without a Shore ... (Director)
2006
- Poem B (The Guest House) ... (Director)
2005
- Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall) ... (Idea)
- Fire Woman ... (Director)
- Ablutions ... (Director)
- Basin of Tears ... (Director)
2004
- The Raft ... (Writer)
- The Tristan Project ... (Director)
2003
- Emergence ... (Director)
- Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart as Self
2002
- The Voyage as Gatekeeper
- Going Forth By Day as (segment "The Voyage")
- The Path ... (Director)
- Fire Birth ... (Director)
2001
- Surrender ... (Director)
- Catherine's Room ... (Director)
- Four Hands ... (Director)
2000
- Ascension ... (Director)
- Anima ... (Director)
- Eternal Return ... (Director)
- The Quintet of the Astonished ... (Director)
1996
- The Crossing ... (Director)
1995
- Trovoada as Self (voice)
- Interval ... (Director)
- The Veiling ... (Director)
- The Greeting ... (Director)
1994
- Déserts ... (Director)
1992
- The Passing ... (Director)
- The Sleepers ... (Director)
- Heaven and Earth ... (Director)
- Slowly Turning Narrative ... (Director)
- The Nantes Triptych ... (Director)
1990
- The Stopping Mind ... (Director)
1989
- Angel's Gate ... (Director of Photography)
1986
- I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like as Himself
- Silent Life ... (Director)
- Sodium Vapor ... (Director)
1984
- Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers ... (Director)
1983
- Anthem ... (Director)
- Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
1982
- Ancient of Days ... (Director)
1981
- Hatsu Yume (First Dream) ... (Director)
1980
- Vegetable Memory ... (Director)
1979
- The Reflecting Pool as Performer
- Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) ... (Director)
- Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979 ... (Director)
- Moonblood ... (Director)
1977
- Guadalcanal Requiem ... (Director of Photography)
- The Wheel of Becoming ... (Director)
- Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers ... (Director)
- Memories Of Ancestral Power ... (Director)
- The Morning After the Night of Power ... (Director)
- Sweet Light ... (Director)
- He Weeps for You ... (Director)
1976
- The Space Between the Teeth ... (Director)
- Migration (for Jack Nelson)
- Truth Through Mass Individuation ... (Director)
- Songs of Innocence ... (Director)
- Junkyard Levitation ... (Director)
- Four Songs ... (Director)
1975
- Return
- Red Tape: Collected Works ... (Director)
- Playing Soul Music to My Freckles So They Won't Get Lonely ... (Director)
- A Non-Dairy Creamer ... (Director)
- The Semi-Circular Canals ... (Director)
- A Million Other Things (2) ... (Director)
1973
- Information ... (Director)