Program This episode of "New Television" features Bill Viola's "I Do Not Know What It Is that I Am Like."

Bill Viola's work juxtaposes images of animals, both wild and domestic, and natural environments with human activity as it takes place in an apartment, and during a fire walking ceremony in Fiji. Documentary-style footage is combined with staged events. Despite the piece's lack of a traditional narrative, it bears some relationship to nature works. The credits indicate that the work is divided into five named sections, but the beginnings and endings of these sections seem deliberately blurred. The juxtaposition of images, along with the title, suggests some comparison between human and animal behavior, but no single or clear relationship is defined.

Images included in each section are as follow: Il Corpo Scuro (The dark body): animals and natural environments are seen up close and at a distance "” The Language of Birds: exotic birds are filmed "” The Night of Sense: a man is seated at a desk in an apartment, studying books that seem to be on the subject of anatomy; a cat howls; the man moves around the apartment, eats a cooked fish, and makes a mug of tea; close-ups of objects in the apartment and a hatching egg are interspersed; the man leaves the mug on the table, and an elephant enters from behind a backdrop to remove it "” Stunned by the Drum: close-ups of dogs barking at the camera evolve into a succession of quick images that include zebras, moving cars, people, landscapes, and previously viewed scenes "” The Living Flame: scenes of a Fiji fire-walking ceremony.