Poster of Sodium Vapor

Sodium Vapor

Plot: Writes Viola: "Sodium Vapor was recorded over a period of several weeks in the hours between one and five in the morning on the streets of an industrial area in lower Manhattan. The title derives from an interest in the particular qualities of sodium vapor street lighting — its characteristic color temperature, the shadows it casts, and the eerie quality it seems to impart to the objects it illuminates
Release Date: Wednesday, August 6 1986
38 years ago
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Portrait of Bill ViolaBill Viola
Bill Viola was
35 in Sodium Vapor
as 'Director'
Thu, Jan 25 1951