BILL VIOLA DVD'S
Releasedatum 27 juli

Op 27 juli worden door A-Film de volgende DVD's van Bill Viola uitgegeven. Eindelijk zijn deze DVD's van de gerenommeerde Amerikaanse video kunstenaar beschikbaar. Dit is het enige materiaal van Bill Viola dat op DVD beschikbaar is. Dus grijp je kans.
• The Passing
• Hatsu Yume
• I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

THE PASSING
In memory of Wynne Lee Viola

"Rarely, if ever, has video been so visionary in its mood, so poetic in its language and so powerful in its emotional impact." Steven Bode

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. Bill Viola, 1991

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 meditation on the passage of generations. This one-hour video is a landmark of twentieth-century visual narrative as well as an expression of spirituality that is both deeply personal and universally understood.

Created and directed by Bill Viola
Beeld: Zwart-wit
Geluid: Mono
Herkomst: United States, 1991
Speelduur: 54 minuten

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HATSU - YUME (FIRST DREAM)
For Daien Tanaka

"I was thinking about light and its relation to water and to life, and also its opposite – darkness or the night and death. I thought about how we have built entire cities of artificial light as refuge from the dark. Video treats light like water – it becomes a fluid on the video tube. Water supports the fish like light supports man. Land is the death of the fish. Darkness is the death of man." - Bill Viola, 1981

Hatsu-Yume (First Dream) is Bill Viola's masterpiece, the greatest work by one of the most important video artists in the world. A spiritual allegory equating light and dark with life and death. Hatsu-Yume was produced in Japan in 1981 while Viola was artist-in-residence at the Sony Corporation. The title refers to Japanese folklore, wherein things done on the first day of a new year are significant. But the tape is not to be taken literally as a dream. For Viola, it's more like the aboriginal concept of dreamtime, the creation of the world. That's why, as a whole and in its parts, Hatsu-Yume progresses from darkness to light, stillness to motion, silence to sound, simplicity to complexity, nature to civilization. There are two interwoven themes: the dark water world of fish, and Buddhist rituals invoking the souls of dead ancestors. As in a dream, we frequently can't tell if these wordless streams of image and sound are unfolding in real time, slow-motion or time-lapse. A work of extravagant pictorial beauty, Hatsu-Yume represents the most painterly use of light in the history of video. Form is content: the light that lures fish to their death protects human life. At once ominous, majestic, mystical and deeply spiritual, Hatsu-Yume is the work of a visionary poet of image and sound. - Gene Youngblood

Created and directed by Bill Viola
Beeld: Kleur
Geluid: Stereo
Herkomst: United States/Japan, 1981
Speelduur: 56 minuten

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I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS I AM LIKE

An epic journey in five chapters, I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like is a personal investigation into the inner states and connections to animal consciousness we all possess. 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 with a freely roaming herd of buffalo in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, recorded a time-lapse sequence beside a glacial lake in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and attended a week-long firewalking ritual at a Hindu Temple on the island of Fiji. During this time, Viola was also artist-in-residence at the San Diego Zoo. - Kathy Rae Huffman, Curator/Producer, The Contemporary Art Television Fund

I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like includes the following chapters:
• Il Corpo Scuro (The Dark Body)
• The Language of the Birds
• The Night of Sense
• Stunned by the Drum
• The Living Flame

Created and directed by Bill Viola
Beeld: Kleur
Geluid: Stereo
Herkomst: United States/Japan, 1986
Speelduur: 89 minuten