Songs of Innocence (1976)

• 83%
• 1976
• Bill Viola

"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 Bill Viola terms "a visual relationship between memory, the setting of the sun, and death.