Reverse Television is a series of 44 video portraits made by American video artist Bill Viola in 1983, originally produced for broadcast television and later documented as a 15-minute video. These portraits depict people throughout Boston sitting in their living rooms, silently staring at the video camera as though it were a TV set.[1] The portraits were meant to take fit into space normally occupied by television commercials and as such to "interrupt the continuity of the undifferentiated flow of the television picture, giving viewers the possibility of pondering their own position facing the screen."[2]