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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    This haunting installment contains a solitary wood chair with headphones attached, facing a television monitor. A man (the artist himself),looking vi...

    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?
  • 2002
    Going Forth By Day

    Going Forth By Day

    Going Forth By Day

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    The film is a five-part projection-based installation, which addresses the complexity of human existence through the themes of individuality, society,...

    Going Forth By Day
  • 2026
    Processing the Signal

    Processing the Signal

    Processing the Signal

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    Processing the Signal
  • 1976
    Migration (for Jack Nelson)

    Migration (for Jack Nelson)

    Migration (for Jack Nelson)

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    Migration is an analysis of an image, a metaphorical exercise in perception and representation, illusion and reality, microcosm and macrocosm, nature...

    Migration (for Jack Nelson)
  • 1995
    Trovoada

    Trovoada

    Trovoada

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    Trovoada
  • 2026
    The Deluge

    The Deluge

    The Deluge

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    A classic edifice and its surrounding population succumb to a vast flood of water. It is the third video in the five-part digital-image cycle of the v...

    The Deluge
  • 2026
    Das Theater im Sucher - Die Fotografin Ruth Walz

    Das Theater im Sucher - Die Fotografin Ruth Walz

    Das Theater im Sucher - Die Fotografin Ruth Walz

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    For half a century, photographer Ruth Walz has been immersing herself in Europe’s theaters and opera houses, capturing the action on stage with passio...

    Das Theater im Sucher - Die Fotografin Ruth Walz