MTU Cork Library Catalogue

The passing [videorecording] / a videotape by Bill Viola.

Contributor(s): Viola, Bill, 1951- [director].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : LVA, 1991Description: 1 videocassette (54 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.Subject(s): Viola, Bill, 1951- | Video art | Experimental films | Performance art | Death in dreams | Family in dreamsDDC classification: CCAD VIDEO 014
Production Credits: Bill Viola, director
Summary: A restless sleeper dreams of death, drowning, his family, and various primal experiences. 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.
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General Lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Video CCAD VIDEO 014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00060735
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The Passing is considered to be experimental filmmaker Bill Viola s most accessible work and stands as an eloquent insight into the human existence.

Bill Viola, director

A restless sleeper dreams of death, drowning, his family, and various primal experiences. 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.

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