Still from Five Angels for the Millenium [2001] by Bill Viola at the Tate Modern

Making Bill Viola [1|2]

“That cost a fair amount of money to make” says Pat, one of the group, after having spent some time looking at the Bill Viola video at Tate Modern.
“Probably as much as the whole digital production space”, says Sam, as they sit sipping coffee and looking at single-screen work and documentaries by Bill Viola in the Digital Cinema.
The Digital Cinema Workshop is in its third year at the Tate Modern and this is the beginning of the ‘Making Bill Viola’ workshop. The Workshop began after a financial crisis at the Tate in mid 2004. The Tate was compelled to set up cost centres for each department, as one of the conditions for future funding, and each cost centre had to become self-sustaining within three years.
Digital Cinema has become one of the success stories at the Tate Modern. The initiative was led by three of the educator/artists at the Tate; Joleen Keizer, Paul Howard and Liz Ellis, and came from an idea by one of their students, to set up a series of film and video workshops. The Digital Cinema is now becoming an important facility for the production, distribution and showing of digital film and video at new venues throughout the UK.

more...

(8877)