Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul’s (DVD)

Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul’s
A film directed by Gerald Fox

This powerful documentary follows the world’s most influential video artist Bill Viola and his wife and close collaborator Kira Perov over a twelve-year period as they undertake and complete the installation of two permanent video works, Mary and Martyrs, in St Paul’s Cathedral in London. In documenting Viola’s approach, the award-winning arts documentary director Gerald Fox captures the essence of Viola’s creative process, along with the signifi cant changes that occur in these two figures over the lengthy time period. He also looks back at the career of this seminal artist, who since the early 1970s has taken video art to a new level of acceptance in contemporary art.

Sound format: PCM Stereo
Picture format: 16:9
Language: EN
Subtitles: DE, EN
Region code: 0
Running time: 81 minutes
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