Bill Viola
Directing
Born January 25, 1951 · Queens, New York, USA
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.
Directed (81)
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
2018
Mary
2016
Martyrs: Earth
2014
Martyrs: Water
2014
Martyrs: Fire
2014
Martyrs: Air
2014
Martyrs
2014
Inverted Birth
2014
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
Fire Woman
2005
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
2005
The Tristan Project
2004
The Raft
2004
Emergence
2003
Going Forth By Day
2002
Fire Birth
2002
The Path
2002
The Voyage
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
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
Sweet Light
1977
Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
1977
The Wheel of Becoming
1977
The Morning After the Night of Power
1977
He Weeps for You
1977
Truth Through Mass Individuation
1976
The Space Between the Teeth
1976
Songs of Innocence
1976
Junkyard Levitation
1976
Four Songs
1976
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
1976
Playing Soul Music to My Freckles So They Won't Get Lonely
1975
A Non-Dairy Creamer
1975
The Semi-Circular Canals
1975
A Million Other Things (2)
1975
Return
1975
Red Tape: Collected Works
1975
Information
1973
The Crossing
