Bill Viola Movies

  • 1975
    A Million Other Things (2)

    A Million Other Things (2)

    A Million Other Things (2)

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    In A Million Other Things (2), changes in light and sound on the edge of a pond during an eight-hour period from day to night are composed in...

    A Million Other Things (2)
  • 2008
    Three Women

    Three Women

    Three Women

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    Part of Bill Viola's "Transfigurations" series, this work shows a mother and her daughters enacting a transfiguration when they choose to pass...

    Three Women
  • 2005
    Fire Woman

    Fire Woman

    Fire Woman

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    2005. Video/sound installation. Performer: Robin Bonaccorsi.

    Fire Woman
  • 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
  • 1975
    A Non-Dairy Creamer

    A Non-Dairy Creamer

    A Non-Dairy Creamer

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    Viola describes A Non-Dairy Creamer as "the eradication of the individual by self-consumption." The artist's face, visible only as a reflected image...

    A Non-Dairy Creamer
  • 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
  • 1980
    Vegetable Memory

    Vegetable Memory

    Vegetable Memory

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    The title of Vegetable Memory derives from the writings of Jalaludin Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet. Evolving as what Viola terms a "kind of...

    Vegetable Memory
  • 1996
    The Crossing

    The Crossing

    The Crossing

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    In this work's left panel, The Crossing (1996), a walking male figure is consumed by fire on a 27-foot vertical plasma screen projection while in the...

    The Crossing