Bill Viola Movies

  • 2002
    The Voyage

    The Voyage

    The Voyage

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    The fourth video in the five-part digital-image cycle project "Going Forth By Day" (2002),"The Voyage" features an elderly man who is dying, surround...

    The Voyage
  • 1983
    Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House

    Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House

    Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House

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    Viola experimental short

    Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
  • 1975
    Return

    Return

    Return

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    Return is a methodical construction of the approach of an individual towards an unseen goal, which assumes metaphorical significance. Viola moves towa...

    Return
  • 1986
    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

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    "I Do Not Know What It Is that I Am Like" juxtaposes images of animals, both wild and domestic, and natural environments with human activity as it tak...

    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
  • 2003
    Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart

    Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart

    Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart

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    Hailed as the "Rembrandt of the Video Age," renowned American artist Bill Viola became the first contemporary artist ever to be featured in a one-man...

    Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart
  • 1979
    The Reflecting Pool

    The Reflecting Pool

    The Reflecting Pool

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    Viola's seminal piece, The Reflecting Pool, was made three decades ago on analogue video tape and yet could easily pass for a contemporary digital pie...

    The Reflecting Pool
  • 2017
    Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's

    Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's

    Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's

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    Gerald Fox’s film documents Bill Viola and his wife and close collaborator Kira Perov’s odyssey to create two permanent video installations for London...

    Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's
  • 2013
    What Is Cinema?

    What Is Cinema?

    What Is Cinema?

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    Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, Da...

    What Is Cinema?