Bill Viola Movies

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...

Writes Viola: "A succession of individual images focusing on mortality, decay and disintegration, are delineated by long, slow fades to black. The...

Installation on two screens where the two characters burst into tears, gradually lowering their heads until their faces touch the water.

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

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

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

Two naked, life-sized figures, each around 70 years old, track torches across their aging epidermises as if rooting out the pattern of their pasts....

The video installation's alternation between slow and fast-moving images, as well as soft and loud sounds, represents faltering thought processes. A...