Songs of Innocence

Overview

Songs of Innocence, which directly references the visionary Romanticism of William Blake, is haunted with symbolic transformations, as shifting light is charted through the passage of a day. Images of children singing on a school lawn dissolve and reappear, hovering at the edge of perception, illusion and reality, evoking what Viola terms "a visual relationship between memory, the setting of the sun, and death."

Details

Status

Released

Release date

August 6, 1976

Original language

English

Director

Bill Viola

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt9716076