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Sweet Light
Description: "Using a camera moving along a predetermined path to create the effect of a simulated zoom, Sweet Light refers to the seduction of illumination, focusing on the phototropic vision of a moth. Writes Viola, "A moth emerges from a discarded letter as the spirit of a dead thought and — after an attempted flight to freedom — an individual appears, is inexorably drawn i...
Migration
"The idea for Migration came to Viola while he was walking down a street one rainy day in New York. His glasses were covered with raindrops and he saw that each drop was a lens. Everything around him was covered with little hemispherical lenses that contained optical microcosms of the environment. He was surrounded by worlds within worlds . He couldn't see the images in the bea...
Chott el-Djerid: A Portrait in Light and Heat
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) almost magically captures the optical and acoustic distortions of nature. Focused on landscape, the video work dwells briefly on the snowy plains of midwestern America and Saskatchewan, then abruptly switches to the arid Tunisian desert. Viola investigates the world of illusion and how it is made. He works by slowly discovering the...
仪式 Observance
Eighteen individuals forming a narrow row are asked to move in front of the camera to look at something they would rather not see, to say goodbye to someone who'd left them, sharing their own ritual of grief with raw facial expressions.
天使之门 Angel's Gate
A succession of individual images focusing on mortality, decay and disintegration, are delineated by long, slow fades to black. The image sequences -- fruit falling from a tree, a candle being extinguished, a family having a flash photograph taken -- appear as a series of openings or momentary glimpses into nature's essential gestures which, like thoughts, are destined to fade ...
倒影池 The Reflecting Pool
Bill Viola's The Reflecting Pool created from 1977 to 1979 is largely concerned with water. The camera angle of this film never moves. The camera is positioned in the same place for the entirety of the piece. In the beginning of the film you see a square pool which has the color and feel of an impressionist painting. You hear the sound of outside, both airplanes and running wat...