Movies
- 2014

Martyrs: Water
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Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) consists of four plasma screens, each showing a single figure who is progressively overwhelmed by the onslaught of...
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- 1990

The Stopping Mind
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The video installation's alternation between slow and fast-moving images, as well as soft and loud sounds, represents faltering thought processes. A...
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- 1981

Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
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With a title referring to Japanese folklore, wherein things done on the first day of a new year are significant, the film - an ardent dream entirely...
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- 1995

The Veiling
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The sculptural video installation consists of nine scrims suspended parallel to one another. Projectors at either end of the row of scrims show...
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- 2014

Inverted Birth
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American video artist Bill Viola explores the life cycle as an enveloping whole instead of the hegemonic view of life as a linear progression. The...
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- 1976

The Space Between the Teeth
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The Space Between the Teeth is based on the structure of acoustic phenomena and the psychological dynamics of a man screaming at the end of a long...
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- 2005

Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
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The ascent of the soul in the space after death as it is awakened and drawn up in a backwards flowing waterfall.
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- 2004

The Tristan Project
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A four-hour plus video production inspired by Richard Wagner's oeuvre "Tristan und Isolde" and projected during the opera premiere in Paris, in...
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- 1975

Playing Soul Music to My Freckles So They Won't Get Lonely
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Playing Soul Music to My Freckles is a minimalist performance in which a bare loudspeaker, playing an Aretha Franklin song, is seen on the artist's...
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- 1973

Information
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Information is an exercise in technological reflexivity, an early investigation of the material presence of the electronic medium. From a technical...
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- 2013

The Dreamers
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Seven vertically mounted screens show seven fully clothed submerged people of different ages, genders and ethnicities floating beneath the surface of...
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- 1994

Déserts
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Déserts was created to accompany a live performance of the work of avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse (1885-1965). The Ensemble Modern,...
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- 1995

Interval
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Video/sound installation featuring two channels of color video projections from opposite walls of a large, darkened gallery; custom video switching...
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- 1979

Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979
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Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979, by incorporating a large body of water, with video and sound recordings of nature, was pioneering in its use of...
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- 1992

The Nantes Triptych
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The three panels of Bill Viola’s triptych show video footage of birth (on the left), death (on the right) and a metaphorical journey between...
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- 2012

Traveling on Foot
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Two figures are captured in slow motion, walking closely together, across a stretch of the Mojave Desert towards the camera, with no end in sight.
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- 2006

Poem B (The Guest House)
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In this artwork, we witness the residue of a life through the objects and structures that surround a solitary older woman: color and black-and-white...
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- 1983

Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
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This haunting installment contains a solitary wood chair with headphones attached, facing a television monitor. A man (the artist himself), looking...
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- 1975

A Non-Dairy Creamer
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Viola describes A Non-Dairy Creamer as "the eradication of the individual by self-consumption." The artist's face, visible only as a reflected image...
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- 1977

Guadalcanal Requiem
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One of Paik’s most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history,...
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