CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The University of Virginia Art Museum will present Bill Viola's "Six Heads," a video art installation that coincides with the Virginia Film Festival Oct. 28 through Oct. 31. "Six Heads" by Viola, an internationally acclaimed video artist, opens Tuesday, Oct. 26 and runs through Thursday, Dec. 23.

Referencing portrait tradition, Viola's framed video animates the subject's face moving through a series of expressions -- joy, sorrow, anger, fear, awe, and sleep or dreaming -- in extremely slow motion. Similar to the photography from the turn of the century, video has moved beyond documentation and become an established and exciting art medium.

The exhibit is an example of experimental media art that is characterized by extreme time, the cinema's ability to freeze, stretch and compress time, which plays on the Film Festival's theme of "Speed." A selection of speed-related videos, including Sam Taylor Wood's "Still Life," also will be shown.