Bill Viola
Directing • AGE 75
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...
Filmography
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Director
2018
Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's
Self
2017
Martyrs: Earth
Director
2014
Martyrs: Water
Director
2014
Martyrs: Fire
Director
2014
Martyrs: Air
Director
2014
Martyrs
Director
2014
Inverted Birth
Director
2014
What Is Cinema?
Self
2013
Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity
Director
2013
The Dreamers
Director
2013
The Encounter
Director
2012
Walking on the Edge
Director
2012
Traveling on Foot
Director
2012
A Phrase from Chris
Director
2011
The Innocents
Director
2008
Three Women
Director
2008
Ocean Without a Shore
Director
2007
Poem B (The Guest House)
Director
2006
Basin of Tears
Director
2005
Ablutions
Director
2005
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
Idea
2005
Fire Woman
Director
2005
The Tristan Project
Director
2004
The Raft
Writer
2004
Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart
Self
2003
Emergence
Director
2003
Going Forth By Day
(segment "The Voyage")
2002
Fire Birth
Director
2002
The Path
Director
2002
The Voyage
Gatekeeper
2002
Four Hands
Director
2001
Catherine's Room
Director
2001
Surrender
Director
2001
The Quintet of the Astonished
Director
2000
Anima
Director
2000
Eternal Return
Director
2000
The Crossing
Director
1996
The Veiling
Director
1995
Interval
Director
1995
Trovoada
Self (voice)
1995
The Greeting
Director
1995
Déserts
Director
1994
The Passing
Director
1992
Slowly Turning Narrative
Director
1992
The Nantes Triptych
Director
1992
Heaven and Earth
Director
1992
The Sleepers
Director
1992
The Stopping Mind
Director
1990
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
Himself
1986
Silent Life
Director
1986
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers
Director
1984
Anthem
Director
1983
Ancient of Days
Director
1982
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
Director
1981
The Reflecting Pool
Performer
1979
Moonblood
Director
1979
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
Director
1979
Guadalcanal Requiem
Director of Photography
1977
Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
Director
1977
He Weeps for You
Director
1977
The Space Between the Teeth
Director
1976
Songs of Innocence
Director
1976
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
1976
Red Tape: Collected Works
Director
1975
The Semi-Circular Canals
Director
1975
Information
Director
1973