"Director: Bill Viola"

• Bill Viola - Collected Works | DVD | (19/07/2010) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-10.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This collection contains four acclaimed videos from Bill Viola, a major figure in the world of video art. Collected Works, Allegories in the Language of Subjective Perception include: Migration The Reflecting Pool Ancient of Days Chott-El-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) Compounded of many resonances, each level of meaning interwoven with myriad others, these exquisite 'visual songs' give us the elegant music of the poet's voice. Bill Viola (b.1951) is internationa...

• I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like (Bill Viola) | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-8.49 (-26.50%)   |  RRP £31.99

  In a stream of images of striking clarity depth and beauty woven within a subtle fabric of natural sound Bill Viola evokes a timeless view of the natural world and our place in it. This is a major contribution to contemporary video art that masterfully speaks to us in the inner language of subjective thoughts and collective memories. Bill Viola and Kira Perov gathered images for this video work over a period of two years. In the course of their travels they spent several weeks wit

• Bill Viola - the Passing | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £31.99

  The Passing is a personal response to the spiritual extremes of birth and death in the family. Black-and-white nocturnal imagery and underwater scenes depict a twilight world hovering on the borders of human perception and consciousness where the multiple lives of the mind--memory reality and vision--merge. Considered by many to be one of Viola's most important and accessible works The Passing speaks eloquently to human experience at its most profound it is a medi

• Bill Viola - Hatsu, Yume (First Dream) | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £31.99

  In this, video artist Bill Viola's most acclaimed work, there are two interwoven themes: the dark water world of fish, and Buddhist rituals invoking the souls of dead ancestors. This is a spiritual allegory equating light and dark with life and death. The title, which translates as 'First Dream',refers to Japanese folklore, wherein things done on the first day of a new year are significant.