Bill Viola Movies

  • 2003
    Emergence

    Emergence

    Emergence

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    Emergence
  • 2008
    The Innocents

    The Innocents

    The Innocents

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    Part of Bill Viola’s Transfiguration series, The Innocents explores the presence of the dead in the world of the living. The video documents a...

    The Innocents
  • 2005
    Basin of Tears

    Basin of Tears

    Basin of Tears

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    In Basin of Tears, two videos are projected side by side on two adjacent screens mounted to the wall. This video diptych creates an incredible...

    Basin of Tears
  • 2005
    Ablutions

    Ablutions

    Ablutions

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    This diptych opens with the image of two parallel streams of falling water. A female torso moves into the background of the left screen while a male...

    Ablutions
  • 1992
    The Passing

    The Passing

    The Passing

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    Internationally acclaimed and award-winning video installation artist Bill Viola juxtaposes personal pictures of his mother's death with images of...

    The Passing
  • 2001
    Catherine's Room

    Catherine's Room

    Catherine's Room

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    This video work is one of a group of pieces known as 'The Passions' which explores human emotions, inspired by early European devotional paintings....

    Catherine's Room
  • 1992
    The Sleepers

    The Sleepers

    The Sleepers

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    The Sleepers is a startlingly dark vision of sleeping people suspended under water, unable to make contact with the world outside. Viola describes...

    The Sleepers
  • 1992
    Slowly Turning Narrative

    Slowly Turning Narrative

    Slowly Turning Narrative

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    Slowly Turning Narrative includes two projections on a large central rotating screen. One presents images of virtually everything that constitutes...

    Slowly Turning Narrative
  • 2014
    Martyrs: Water

    Martyrs: Water

    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...

    Martyrs: Water