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American Cinematographer Magazine New Yorker Magazine
Los Angeles Times
Times of London
HDVideoPro Magazine
Wall Street Journal
Financial Times of London
Los Angeles Times:
"What matters is that "The Tristan Project" is, quite simply, the great Los Angeles artwork of our time."…download.pdf
"'Tristan' graduates from a project to a triumph." "The Paris staging of what started as concerts in L.A. succeeds on a grand
scale… …It could well be a very long time before something this great comes our way again on the lyric stage." ...download pdf
Times of London:
"If you don't see anything else at this year's Biennale go see this work of Bill Viola."...download pdf
American Cinematographer Magazine:
"With the surveillance camera used to create the effect of a single ghostly spirit emerging from darkness, a Sony HDW-F950 would capture the spirit’s transition into flesh after it pierces the proverbial veil between life and death — the veil is represented by a transparent wall of cascading water."…download pdf
HDVideoPro:
“Ocean Without A Shore,” a fascinating work of art utilizing the latest hi-def technology combined with a 1970s vintage black-and-white analog surveillance camera. The installation opened earlier this year in
the Church of San Gallo in Venice, Italy." Simon Wakelin…download pdf
New Yorker Magazine:
"Indelible images appear throughout: Tristan walks through a wall of fire, and afterward embers glow on his shirt like stars; Isolde lights a vast array of candles, one by one; the sun rises in real time through the branches of a solitary tree; the dead Tristan is raised in the air by a swell of water. And there are many other stunning congruences of sight and sound."…download pdf
Financial Times of London:
DV Magazine article:"Viola too, although working in opera for the first time, is aware that there is a tradition of "powdered wigs and chandelier" productions which he is helping to banish. "I have not made a video that illustrates Wagner. I have made an art work that is inspired by Wagner. We all give inspiration to each other. That is one of the reasons we are on earth together." …download pdf
"Each is hypnotic, moving, and engaging in a way that a true still image could never be. And yet, because each piece shows only a single shot, they function like a still image extended through time, a technique also used, if less dramatically, in some commercials."…download.pdf
LAWeekly article:
"Mostly the figures levitate in some way: instead of being dragged down by gravity, into a watery death, they come exploding out."…download.pdf
Millimeter Magazine article:
…High Def also enabled Viola to capture the 34-minute uninterrupred shots that comprise each 'moving fresco.' DP Harry Dawson, who's worked with Viola for a decade, says, "we didn't use it because it's the latest thing. We used it because it was the right tool for this job."…download.pdf
New York Times review:
"…its appearance is cinematic, "Going Forth by Day," whose title is taken from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, is a far cry from the
usual cinematic treatment of epic themes."…download.pdf
NYT article:
Is the purchase a signal that the Met is about to start an extensive video collection? ''No,'' Mr. Lieberman said. ''But I think we should have an example, and this relates so perfectly to old masters. It's very moving and a great narrative.''… download.pdf
Los Angeles Magazine:
"Confronting them in a darkened room could well be for viewers in the technological age as wondrous as it must have been for Renaissance churchgoers to approach paintings and altarpieces whose singular source of light, saturated color, and vividly rendered figures seerved as Violas's models — not only for the visual impact he was after but for the kind of intimate and even transcendent experience…" download pdf.
