Movies: Bill Viola Studio

The film is a five-part projection-based installation, which addresses the complexity of human existence through the themes of individuality, society, death and rebirth. Each video is projected directly onto the wall of the exhibition space, just as ...

"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 takes place in an apartment, and during a fire walking ceremony in Fiji. Documentary-style footage is c...

A small crowd of people are gathered in wait when they are suddenly struck by a massive onslaught of water....

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 piece; in it, Viola emerges as central protagonist from a thick forest into a clearing filled by an art...

With a title referring to Japanese folklore, wherein things done on the first day of a new year are significant, the film - an ardent dream entirely shot in Japan - stands as a spiritual allegory equating light and dark with life and death....

A documentary short in Chott el-Djerid....

Viola experimental short...

The ascent of the soul in the space after death as it is awakened and drawn up in a backwards flowing waterfall....

A series of shots depicting "America" are laid over a classic Gregorian Chant recreated through the distortion of a woman's screams....