Songs of Innocence

Songs of Innocence

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 6, 1976

Runtime

0h 10m

Original Title

Songs of Innocence

Director

Bill Viola

Description

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."