Discuss how video artist Bill Viola employs digital media to create a visual and sensory experience
What will be an ideal response?
Viola's The Blessing makes use of a high-speed film camera. When footage shot at high speed is projected at a normal rate, it produces the illusion of perfectly smooth slow motion. Viola films an encounter between three women that, in real time, took 45 seconds. Projected in slow motion, it lasts for 10 minutes, allowing us to savor every detail. The Blessing recalls Renaissance works and religious subjects, such as the Visitation, but distances it from its specifically Christian model. With painterly lighting and slowed motion Viola lifts his scene out of the ordinary, suggesting that we are witnessing a sacred moment.
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