🎬 Director
Bill Viola
🎂 Born 25 January 1951 (age 75)📍 Queens, New York, USA
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Popularity Score
9
Acting Credits
62
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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.
Known For
Directed Films(62)
The Raft
2004
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★ 6.0
Déserts
1994
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Going Forth By Day
2002
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★ 10.0
The Voyage
2002
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
2018
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★ 5.3
The Reflecting Pool
1979
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The Tristan Project
2004
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★ 6.0
Information
1973
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★ 5.0
Emergence
2003
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★ 6.4
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
1981
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★ 6.7
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
1986
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The Dreamers
2013
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★ 7.0
The Path
2002
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Three Women
2008
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The Stopping Mind
1990
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★ 6.0
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
1976
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Traveling on Foot
2012
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Catherine's Room
2001
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Martyrs: Water
2014
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★ 6.0
Ocean Without a Shore
2007
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Martyrs: Air
2014
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Martyrs
2014
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Fire Birth
2002
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Martyrs: Fire
2014
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The Nantes Triptych
1992
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Moonblood
1979
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The Quintet of the Astonished
2000
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★ 6.0
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers
1984
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★ 7.1
Ancient of Days
1982
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Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity
2013
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★ 8.0
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
2005
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★ 9.0
A Phrase from Chris
2011
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Inverted Birth
2014
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Anima
2000
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★ 6.3
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
1979
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The Sleepers
1992
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Ablutions
2005
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★ 8.0
Fire Woman
2005
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The Veiling
1995
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He Weeps for You
1977
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Four Hands
2001
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Slowly Turning Narrative
1992
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Surrender
2001
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★ 6.3
Anthem
1983
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The Encounter
2012
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Songs of Innocence
1976
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Interval
1995
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★ 7.0
The Space Between the Teeth
1976
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Basin of Tears
2005
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★ 5.5
The Passing
1992
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The Semi-Circular Canals
1975
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Red Tape: Collected Works
1975
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Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
1977
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The Greeting
1995
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Eternal Return
2000
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Martyrs: Earth
2014
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Heaven and Earth
1992
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Poem B (The Guest House)
2006
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Silent Life
1986
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Walking on the Edge
2012
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The Innocents
2008
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The Crossing
1996
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