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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1951-01-25 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Queens, New York, USA

Bill Viola

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.

Known For

Return

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Going Forth By Day

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I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

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The Dreamers

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The Voyage

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The Raft

Mary

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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

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Déserts

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Ascension

Acting

2017

Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's as Self

2013

What Is Cinema? as Self

2003

Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart as Self

2002

The Voyage as Gatekeeper

Going Forth By Day as (segment "The Voyage")

1986

I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like as Himself

1983

Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House

1979

The Reflecting Pool as Performer

1975

Directing

2018

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde as Director

2016

Mary as Director

2014

Inverted Birth as Director

Martyrs as Director

Martyrs: Water as Director

Martyrs: Earth as Director

Martyrs: Air as Director

Martyrs: Fire as Director

2013

Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity as Director

The Dreamers as Director

2012

The Encounter as Director

Walking on the Edge as Director

Traveling on Foot as Director

2011

A Phrase from Chris as Director

2008

Three Women as Director

The Innocents as Director

2007

Ocean Without a Shore as Director

2006

Poem B (The Guest House) as Director

2005

Fire Woman as Director

Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall) as Director

Ablutions as Director

Basin of Tears as Director

2004

The Tristan Project as Director

The Raft as Director

2003

Emergence as Director

2002

Going Forth By Day as Director

Fire Birth as Director

The Path as Director

The Voyage as Director

2001

Surrender as Director

Catherine's Room as Director

Four Hands as Director

2000

Eternal Return as Director

Ascension as Director

Anima as Director

The Quintet of the Astonished as Director

1996

The Crossing as Director

1995

The Veiling as Director

The Greeting as Director

Interval as Director

1994

Déserts as Director

1992

The Passing as Director

Slowly Turning Narrative as Director

The Nantes Triptych as Director

Heaven and Earth as Director

The Sleepers as Director

1990

The Stopping Mind as Director

1989

Angel's Gate as Director

1986

Silent Life as Director

I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like as Director

Sodium Vapor as Director

1984

Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers as Director

1983

Anthem as Director

Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House as Director

1982

Ancient of Days as Director

1981

Hatsu Yume (First Dream) as Director

1980

Vegetable Memory as Director

1979

Moonblood as Director

Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) as Director

The Reflecting Pool as Director

Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979 as Director

1977

Memories Of Ancestral Power as Director

The Wheel of Becoming as Director

The Morning After the Night of Power as Director

Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers as Director

Sweet Light as Director

He Weeps for You as Director

1976

Migration (for Jack Nelson) as Director

Truth Through Mass Individuation as Director

The Space Between the Teeth as Director

Four Songs as Director

Junkyard Levitation as Director

Songs of Innocence as Director

1975

A Non-Dairy Creamer as Director

Playing Soul Music to My Freckles as Director

A Million Other Things (2) as Director

Red Tape: Collected Works as Director

Return as Director

The Semi-Circular Canals as Director

1973

Information as Director

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The Crossing as Director

Camera

1994

Déserts as Director of Photography

1989

Angel's Gate as Director of Photography

1981

Hatsu Yume (First Dream) as Director of Photography

1979

The Reflecting Pool as Director of Photography

1977

Guadalcanal Requiem as Director of Photography

1976

Migration (for Jack Nelson) as Director of Photography

Writing

2016

Mary as Writer

2005

Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall) as Idea

2004

The Raft as Writer

2002

Going Forth By Day as Writer

1994

Déserts as Writer

1989

Angel's Gate as Idea

1983

Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House as Writer

Anthem as Writer

1981

Hatsu Yume (First Dream) as Writer

1979

The Reflecting Pool as Writer

1976

Migration (for Jack Nelson) as Idea

1975

Return as Writer

Editing

2002

Going Forth By Day as Editor

1994

Déserts as Editor

1989

Angel's Gate as Editor

1981

Hatsu Yume (First Dream) as Editor

1979

The Reflecting Pool as Editor

1976

Migration (for Jack Nelson) as Editor

Production

1986

I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like as Producer

1981

Hatsu Yume (First Dream) as Producer

Crew

2002

Going Forth By Day as Cinematography

1986

I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like as Cinematography

1979

Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) as Creator