Silent Life (1986)
Silent Life records the first hours and days of life through a series of portraits of newborn babies in a hospital nursery. The alienating hospital environment, and the vulnerability of the babies' gestures and expressions, suggests a primal linking of birth and death.
- Date of release
- 1986-04-16
- Runtime
- 13m
- Director
- Bill Viola
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