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: Air ... (Director)
- Martyrs: Earth ... (Director)
- Martyrs: Water ... (Director)
- Martyrs ... (Director)
- Martyrs: Fire ... (Director)
2013
- What Is Cinema? as Self
- Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity ... (Director)
- The Dreamers ... (Director)
2012
- Traveling on Foot ... (Director)
- Walking on the Edge ... (Director)
- The Encounter ... (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
- Ablutions ... (Director)
- Fire Woman ... (Director)
- Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall) ... (Idea)
- Basin of Tears ... (Director)
2004
- The Raft ... (Writer)
- The Tristan Project ... (Director)
2003
- Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart as Self
- Emergence ... (Director)
2002
- Going Forth By Day as (segment "The Voyage")
- The Silent Sea ... (Director)
- Fire Birth ... (Director)
- The Voyage as Gatekeeper
- The Path ... (Director)
2001
- Surrender ... (Director)
- Catherine's Room ... (Director)
- Four Hands ... (Director)
2000
- Eternal Return ... (Director)
- Ascension ... (Director)
- Anima ... (Director)
- The Quintet of the Astonished ... (Director)
1996
- The Crossing ... (Director)
1995
- Trovoada as Self (voice)
- Interval ... (Director)
- The Greeting ... (Director)
- The Veiling ... (Director)
1994
- Déserts ... (Director)
1992
- The Passing ... (Director)
- Heaven and Earth ... (Director)
- The Nantes Triptych ... (Director)
- The Sleepers ... (Director)
- Slowly Turning Narrative ... (Director)
1990
- The Stopping Mind ... (Director)
1989
- Angel's Gate ... (Idea)
1986
- I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like as Himself
- Sodium Vapor ... (Director)
- 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
- Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) ... (Director)
- Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979 ... (Director)
- Moonblood ... (Director)
1977
- Guadalcanal Requiem ... (Director of Photography)
- Sweet Light ... (Director)
- Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers ... (Director)
- The Wheel of Becoming ... (Director)
- The Morning After the Night of Power ... (Director)
- He Weeps for You ... (Director)
- Memories Of Ancestral Power ... (Director)
1976
- Four Songs ... (Director)
- Songs of Innocence ... (Director)
- Truth Through Mass Individuation ... (Director)
- The Space Between the Teeth ... (Director)
- Junkyard Levitation ... (Director)
- Migration (for Jack Nelson)
1975
- Return
- Red Tape: Collected Works ... (Director)
- The Semi-Circular Canals ... (Director)
- A Million Other Things (2) ... (Director)
- Playing Soul Music to My Freckles So They Won't Get Lonely ... (Director)
- A Non-Dairy Creamer ... (Director)
1973
- Information ... (Director)