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"The Japanese consider the first dream (hatsu yume) of the new year, to be especially portentous. Bill Viola is a video artist concerned with the mystical aspects of physics and optical transformations. Here he plays with perspective and time, making connections between the flow of light and the flow of water. He shows us the cycle of a day that begins in light and ends in light illuminating the darkness, a cycle that metaphorically symbolizes the cycle of time and creation."
"In this spiritual allegory equating light and dark with life and death, the film progresses from darkness to light, stillness to motion, silence to sound, simplicity to complexity and nature to civilization. A work of extravagant pictorial beauty, it represents the most painterly use of light in video and is one of Viola's greatest works."@en
"The Japanese consider the first dream (hatsu yume) of the new year to be especially portentous. Bill Viola is a video artist concerned with the mystical aspects of physics and optical transformations. Here he plays with perspective and time, making connections between the flow of light and the flow of water. He shows us the cycle of a day that begins in light and ends in light illuminating darkness, a cycle that metaphorically symbolizes the cycle of time and creation."
"The Japanese consider the first dream (hatsu yume) of the new year, to be especially portentous. Bill Viola, concerned with the mystical aspects of physics and optical transformations, plays with perspective and time, making connections between the flow of light and the flow of water. He shows us the cycle of a day that begins in light and ends in light illuminating the darkness, a cycle that metaphorically symbolizes the cycle of time and creation."
"The Japanese consider the first dream (hatsu yume) of the new year, to be especially portentous. Bill Viola is a video artist concerned with the mystical aspects of physics and optical transformations. Here he plays with perspective and time, making connections between the flow of light and the flow of water. He shows us the cycle of a day that begins in light and ends in light illuminating the darkness, a cycle that metaphorically symbolizes the cycle of time and creation. "A spiritual allegory equating light and dark with life and death. It was produced in Japan while Viola was artist-in-residence at the Sony Corporation. There are two interwovern themes: the dark water world of fish and Buddhist rituals invoking the souls of dead ancestors. It is a work of extravagant pictorial beauty, at once ominous, majestic, spiritual and mystical."--Contemporary Arts Media."
"Hatsu-Yume (First Dream) is Bill Viola's masterpiece, the greatest work by one of the most important video artists in the world. A spiritual allegory equating light and dark with life and death. Hatsu-Yume was produced in Japan in 1981 while Viola was artist-in-residence at the Sony Corporation. The title refers to Japanese folklore, where in things done on the first day of a new year are significant. But the tape is not to be taken literally as a dream. For Viola, it's more like the aboriginal concept of dreamtime, the creation of the world. That's why, as a whole and in its parts, Hatsu-Yume progresses from darkness to light, stillness to motion, silence to sound, simplicity to complexity, nature to civilization (Quelle: Verlagsinformation)."
""Hatsu-Yume was produced in Japan in 1981 while Viola was artist-in-residence at the Sony Corporation. The title refers to Japanese folklore, wherein things done on the first day of a new year are significant. But the tape is not to be taken literally as a dream..."--Container."@en
"The Japanese consider the first dream (hatsu yume) of the new year to be especially portentous. Bill Viola is a video artist concerned with the mystical aspects of physics and optical transformations. Here he plays with perspective and time, making connections between the flow of light and the flow of water. He shows us the cycle of a day that begins in light and ends in light illuminating darkness, a cycle that metaphorically symbolizes the cycle of time and creation."
"Hatsu Yume was recorded and edited while in residence at the SONY Corporation, Atsugi Plant, Japan and is a study of the subtlety of light's effects. "I was thinking about light and its relation to water and life, also its opposite -- darkness, or the night and death. I thought about how we have built entire cities of artificial light as refuge from the dark. Video treats light like water -- it becomes a fluid on the video tube." -- B.V.(This tape is also available in 3/4 in. format)."
"Une allégorie spirituelle mettant sur le même plan d'égalité, la lumière et lobscurité avec la vie et la mort. << Jai pensé à la lumière et à sa relation avec leau et la vie, et également à son opposé l'obscurité ou la nuit et la mort. J'ai pensé à la manière dont nous avons construit des villes entières constituées de lumière artificielle pour échapper à l'obscurité. La vidéo traite de la lumière comme sil s'était agi d'eau devenant un fluide dans le tube cathodique. L'eau conserve les poissons en vie telle la lumière, les hommes. La terre représente la mort des poissons. L'obscurité, la mort de l'homme. >> (Bill Viola,1981)."
"Hatsu-Yume (First Dream) is Bill Viola's masterpiece, the greatest work by one of the most important video artists in the world. A spititual allegory equating light and dark with life and death, Hatsu-Yume was produced in Japan in 1981 while Viola was artist-in-residence at the Sony Corporation."@en