Bill Viola Anthem

Bill Viola Anthem (1983, 11:42) The piece centers on a single piercing scream and on the extension of this scream by a little girl eleven years old under the engine shed at Union Railroad Station in Los Angeles. This initial cry, which only lasts a few seconds, is prolonged in time and its frequency is profoundly transformed and multiplied by the use of slow motion. This spasm of sound is the invisible container of a stretchedout time and space, a universal breath. Thus, although the picture shows the li