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 ... (Writer)
2014
- Martyrs: Air ... (Director)
- Inverted Birth ... (Director)
- Martyrs: Water ... (Director)
- Martyrs ... (Director)
- Martyrs: Earth ... (Director)
- Martyrs: Fire ... (Director)
2013
- What Is Cinema? as Self
- Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity ... (Director)
- The Dreamers ... (Director)
2012
- The Encounter ... (Director)
- Traveling on Foot ... (Director)
- Walking on the Edge ... (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 Tristan Project ... (Director)
- The Raft ... (Writer)
2003
- Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart as Self
- Emergence ... (Director)
2002
- Going Forth By Day as (segment "The Voyage")
- The Voyage as Gatekeeper
- The Path ... (Director)
- Fire Birth ... (Director)
- The Silent Sea ... (Director)
2001
- Surrender ... (Director)
- Catherine's Room ... (Director)
- Four Hands ... (Director)
2000
- Ascension ... (Director)
- The Quintet of the Astonished ... (Director)
- Eternal Return ... (Director)
- Anima ... (Director)
1996
- The Crossing ... (Director)
1995
- Trovoada as Self (voice)
- The Greeting ... (Director)
- The Veiling ... (Director)
- Interval ... (Director)
1994
- Déserts ... (Director)
1992
- The Passing ... (Director)
- The Nantes Triptych ... (Director)
- Slowly Turning Narrative ... (Director)
- Heaven and Earth ... (Director)
- The Sleepers ... (Director)
1990
- The Stopping Mind ... (Director)
1989
- Angel's Gate ... (Director of Photography)
1986
- Sodium Vapor ... (Director)
- I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like as Himself
- Silent Life ... (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
- Moonblood ... (Director)
- Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) ... (Director)
- Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979 ... (Director)
1977
- Guadalcanal Requiem ... (Director of Photography)
- The Wheel of Becoming ... (Director)
- He Weeps for You ... (Director)
- Sweet Light ... (Director)
- Memories Of Ancestral Power ... (Director)
- Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers ... (Director)
- The Morning After the Night of Power ... (Director)
1976
- Songs of Innocence ... (Director)
- Four Songs ... (Director)
- The Space Between the Teeth ... (Director)
- Truth Through Mass Individuation ... (Director)
- Migration (for Jack Nelson)
- Junkyard Levitation ... (Director)
1975
- Return
- A Non-Dairy Creamer ... (Director)
- A Million Other Things (2) ... (Director)
- Red Tape: Collected Works ... (Director)
- The Semi-Circular Canals ... (Director)
- Playing Soul Music to My Freckles So They Won't Get Lonely ... (Director)
1973
- Information ... (Director)