Bill Viola

Bill Viola

A pioneer in the medium of video art, Bill Viola's work explores the spiritual and perceptual side of human experience. Since 1970 he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances and pieces for television. Works include Hatsu Yume (First Dream), The Passing, and installations Room for St. John of the Cross, The Messenger and The Quintet of the Astonished, recently shown at the National Gallery, London in "Encounters, New Art from Old". A 25-year survey exhibition of his work organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art recently traveled to 6 institutions in the USA and Europe. MacArthur Fellow.

  • Title: Bill Viola
  • Popularity: 1.088
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1951-01-25
  • Place of Birth: Queens, New York, USA
  • Homepage: https://www.billviola.com/
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Bill Viola Movies

  • 2002
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    The Voyage

    The Voyage

    1 2002 HD

    The fourth video in the five-part digital-image cycle project "Going Forth By Day" (2002), "The Voyage" features an elderly man who is dying,...

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  • 1983
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    Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House

    Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House

    5.25 1983 HD

    Viola experimental short

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  • 1975
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    Return

    Return

    6.857 1975 HD

    Return is a methodical construction of the approach of an individual towards an unseen goal, which assumes metaphorical significance. Viola moves...

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  • 1986
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    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

    6.7 1986 HD

    "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...

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  • 2003
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    Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart

    Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart

    7 2003 HD

    Hailed as the "Rembrandt of the Video Age," renowned American artist Bill Viola became the first contemporary artist ever to be featured in a one-man...

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  • 1979
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    The Reflecting Pool

    The Reflecting Pool

    5.6 1979 HD

    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...

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  • 2017
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    Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's

    Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's

    5.2 2017 HD

    Gerald Fox’s film documents Bill Viola and his wife and close collaborator Kira Perov’s odyssey to create two permanent video...

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  • 2013
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    What Is Cinema?

    What Is Cinema?

    6.2 2013 HD

    Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...

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  • 1990
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    The Stopping Mind

    The Stopping Mind

    1 1990 HD

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  • 1992
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    The Passing

    The Passing

    4.889 1992 HD

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  • 1986
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    Silent Life

    Silent Life

    1 1986 HD

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  • 1979
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    Moonblood

    Moonblood

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1980
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    Vegetable Memory

    Vegetable Memory

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1992
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    Slowly Turning Narrative

    Slowly Turning Narrative

    1 1992 HD

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  • 1977
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    Memories Of Ancestral Power

    Memories Of Ancestral Power

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1981
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    Hatsu Yume (First Dream)

    Hatsu Yume (First Dream)

    6.4 1981 HD

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  • 1983
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    Anthem

    Anthem

    6.3 1983 HD

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  • 1995
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    The Veiling

    The Veiling

    1 1995 HD

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  • 1982
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    Ancient of Days

    Ancient of Days

    7.1 1982 HD

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  • 1979
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    Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)

    Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)

    6.3 1979 HD

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  • 1986
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    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

    6.7 1986 HD

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  • 1992
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    The Nantes Triptych

    The Nantes Triptych

    1 1992 HD

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  • 1976
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    Migration (for Jack Nelson)

    Migration (for Jack Nelson)

    6 1976 HD

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  • 1976
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    Migration (for Jack Nelson)

    Migration (for Jack Nelson)

    6 1976 HD

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  • 2004
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    The Raft

    The Raft

    1 2004 HD

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  • 1976
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    Migration (for Jack Nelson)

    Migration (for Jack Nelson)

    6 1976 HD

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  • 2005
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    Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)

    Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)

    8 2005 HD

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  • 1989
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    Angel's Gate

    Angel's Gate

    6 1989 HD

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  • 1989
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    Angel's Gate

    Angel's Gate

    6 1989 HD

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  • 1989
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    Angel's Gate

    Angel's Gate

    6 1989 HD

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  • 1977
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    Guadalcanal Requiem

    Guadalcanal Requiem

    7 1977 HD

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  • 1995
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    The Greeting

    The Greeting

    1 1995 HD

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  • 1979
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    The Reflecting Pool

    The Reflecting Pool

    5.6 1979 HD

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  • 1976
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    Migration (for Jack Nelson)

    Migration (for Jack Nelson)

    6 1976 HD

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  • 2005
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    Fire Woman

    Fire Woman

    8 2005 HD

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  • 1983
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    Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House

    Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House

    5.25 1983 HD

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  • 1983
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    Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House

    Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House

    5.25 1983 HD

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  • 1976
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    Truth Through Mass Individuation

    Truth Through Mass Individuation

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1976
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    The Space Between the Teeth

    The Space Between the Teeth

    7 1976 HD

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  • 2011
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    A Phrase from Chris

    A Phrase from Chris

    9 2011 HD

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  • 1986
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    Sodium Vapor

    Sodium Vapor

    1 1986 HD

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  • 1976
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    Four Songs

    Four Songs

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1976
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    Junkyard Levitation

    Junkyard Levitation

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1976
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    Songs of Innocence

    Songs of Innocence

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1975
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    A Non-Dairy Creamer

    A Non-Dairy Creamer

    9 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    Playing Soul Music to My Freckles

    Playing Soul Music to My Freckles

    7 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    A Million Other Things (2)

    A Million Other Things (2)

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    Red Tape: Collected Works

    Red Tape: Collected Works

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    Return

    Return

    6.857 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Semi-Circular Canals

    The Semi-Circular Canals

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1994
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    Déserts

    Déserts

    6 1994 HD

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  • 1992
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    Heaven and Earth

    Heaven and Earth

    1 1992 HD

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  • 2014
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    Inverted Birth

    Inverted Birth

    1 2014 HD

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  • 2002
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    Going Forth By Day

    Going Forth By Day

    1 2002 HD

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  • 2001
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    Surrender

    Surrender

    1 2001 HD

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  • 2013
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    Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity

    Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2008
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    Three Women

    Three Women

    1 2008 HD

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  • 2013
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    The Dreamers

    The Dreamers

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2004
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    The Tristan Project

    The Tristan Project

    1 2004 HD

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  • 2002
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    Fire Birth

    Fire Birth

    1 2002 HD

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  • 2002
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    The Path

    The Path

    1 2002 HD

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  • 1996
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    The Crossing

    The Crossing

    1 1996 HD

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  • 1977
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    The Wheel of Becoming

    The Wheel of Becoming

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1989
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    Angel's Gate

    Angel's Gate

    6 1989 HD

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  • 1977
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    The Morning After the Night of Power

    The Morning After the Night of Power

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1977
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    Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers

    Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1977
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    Sweet Light

    Sweet Light

    5 1977 HD

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  • 1994
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    Déserts

    Déserts

    6 1994 HD

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  • 1975
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    Return

    Return

    6.857 1975 HD

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  • 2004
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    The Raft

    The Raft

    1 2004 HD

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  • 2014
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    Martyrs

    Martyrs

    1 2014 HD

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  • 1977
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    He Weeps for You

    He Weeps for You

    1 1977 HD

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  • 2007
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    Ocean Without a Shore

    Ocean Without a Shore

    6 2007 HD

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  • 2000
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    Eternal Return

    Eternal Return

    1 2000 HD

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  • 2016
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    Mary

    Mary

    1 2016 HD

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  • 2016
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    Mary

    Mary

    1 2016 HD

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  • 1986
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    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

    6.7 1986 HD

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  • 1986
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    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

    6.7 1986 HD

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  • 2002
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    The Voyage

    The Voyage

    1 2002 HD

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  • 2018
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    Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

    Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

    1 2018 HD

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  • 1979
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    The Reflecting Pool

    The Reflecting Pool

    5.6 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    The Reflecting Pool

    The Reflecting Pool

    5.6 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    The Reflecting Pool

    The Reflecting Pool

    5.6 1979 HD

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  • 2000
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    Ascension

    Ascension

    1 2000 HD

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  • 1994
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    Déserts

    Déserts

    6 1994 HD

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  • 1994
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    Déserts

    Déserts

    6 1994 HD

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  • 1981
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    Hatsu Yume (First Dream)

    Hatsu Yume (First Dream)

    6.4 1981 HD

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  • 1981
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    Hatsu Yume (First Dream)

    Hatsu Yume (First Dream)

    6.4 1981 HD

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  • 1981
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    Hatsu Yume (First Dream)

    Hatsu Yume (First Dream)

    6.4 1981 HD

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  • 1981
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    Hatsu Yume (First Dream)

    Hatsu Yume (First Dream)

    6.4 1981 HD

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  • 2005
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    Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)

    Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)

    8 2005 HD

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  • 2003
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    Emergence

    Emergence

    5 2003 HD

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  • 2012
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    The Encounter

    The Encounter

    1 2012 HD

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  • 1984
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    Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers

    Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers

    6 1984 HD

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  • 1983
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    Anthem

    Anthem

    6.3 1983 HD

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  • 1979
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    Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979

    Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1992
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    The Sleepers

    The Sleepers

    1 1992 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Crossing

    The Crossing

    6 1970 HD

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  • 1973
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    Information

    Information

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1979
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    Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)

    Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)

    6.3 1979 HD

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  • 2005
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    Ablutions

    Ablutions

    1 2005 HD

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  • 2000
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    Anima

    Anima

    1 2000 HD

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  • 2012
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    Walking on the Edge

    Walking on the Edge

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2014
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    Martyrs: Water

    Martyrs: Water

    1 2014 HD

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  • 2014
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    Martyrs: Earth

    Martyrs: Earth

    1 2014 HD

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  • 2005
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    Basin of Tears

    Basin of Tears

    1 2005 HD

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  • 2014
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    Martyrs: Air

    Martyrs: Air

    1 2014 HD

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  • 2000
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    The Quintet of the Astonished

    The Quintet of the Astonished

    1 2000 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Innocents

    The Innocents

    1 2008 HD

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  • 2014
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    Martyrs: Fire

    Martyrs: Fire

    1 2014 HD

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  • 2001
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    Catherine's Room

    Catherine's Room

    1 2001 HD

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  • 2001
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    Four Hands

    Four Hands

    1 2001 HD

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  • 2012
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    Traveling on Foot

    Traveling on Foot

    1 2012 HD

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  • 1995
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    Interval

    Interval

    1 1995 HD

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  • 2006
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    Poem B (The Guest House)

    Poem B (The Guest House)

    1 2006 HD

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