Movies: Bill Viola Studio

Viola experimental short...

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

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...

"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....

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

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