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Known For

Directing

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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.

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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		Going Forth By Day as (segment "The Voyage")
2002		The Voyage as Gatekeeper

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

Return

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

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

Directing

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The Crossing as Director

2018

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde as Director

2016

Mary as Director

2014		Martyrs: Earth as Director
2014		Martyrs: Water as Director
2014		Martyrs: Fire as Director
2014		Martyrs: Air as Director
2014		Martyrs as Director
2014		Inverted Birth as Director

2013		Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity as Director
2013		The Dreamers as Director

2012		The Encounter as Director
2012		Walking on the Edge as Director
2012		Traveling on Foot as Director

2011

A Phrase from Chris as Director

2008		The Innocents as Director
2008		Three Women as Director

2007

Ocean Without a Shore as Director

2006

Poem B (The Guest House) as Director

2005		Basin of Tears as Director
2005		Ablutions as Director
2005		Fire Woman as Director
2005		Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall) as Director

2004		The Tristan Project as Director
2004		The Raft as Director

2003

Emergence as Director

2002		Going Forth By Day as Director
2002		Fire Birth as Director
2002		The Path as Director
2002		The Voyage as Director

2001		Four Hands as Director
2001		Catherine's Room as Director
2001		Surrender as Director

2000		The Quintet of the Astonished as Director
2000		Anima as Director
2000		Eternal Return as Director
2000		Ascension as Director

1996

The Crossing as Director

1995		The Veiling as Director
1995		Interval as Director
1995		The Greeting as Director

1994

Déserts as Director

1992		The Passing as Director
1992		Slowly Turning Narrative as Director
1992		The Nantes Triptych as Director
1992		Heaven and Earth as Director
1992		The Sleepers as Director

1990

The Stopping Mind as Director

1989

Angel's Gate as Director

1986		Sodium Vapor as Director
1986		I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like as Director
1986		Silent Life as Director

1984

Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers as Director

1983		Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House as Director
1983		Anthem as Director

1982

Ancient of Days as Director

1981

Hatsu Yume (First Dream) as Director

1980

Vegetable Memory as Director

1979		The Reflecting Pool as Director
1979		Moonblood as Director
1979		Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) as Director
1979		Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979 as Director

1977		Memories Of Ancestral Power as Director
1977		The Wheel of Becoming as Director
1977		Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers as Director
1977		The Morning After the Night of Power as Director
1977		Sweet Light as Director
1977		He Weeps for You as Director

1976		The Space Between the Teeth as Director
1976		Junkyard Levitation as Director
1976		Songs of Innocence as Director
1976		Truth Through Mass Individuation as Director
1976		Four Songs as Director
1976		Migration (for Jack Nelson) as Director

1975		A Million Other Things (2) as Director
1975		Red Tape: Collected Works as Director
1975		The Semi-Circular Canals as Director
1975		Playing Soul Music to My Freckles as Director
1975		A Non-Dairy Creamer as Director
1975		Return as Director