William Raban Movies

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

This movie is an experimental documentary following the flow of the Thames out of London to the sea. It has a narration from John Hurt that takes the...

Le déjeuner sur l’herbe is simultaneously perceived from four different camera positions in a work which engages with the pro-filmic in...

The paradox of the present as a time that cannot be reflected upon until it has already become past, seems consistent with the idea of thinking about...

"The film alternates from recording in time-lapse (one frame every ten seconds) to running through the camera at 24 f.p.s. (regular speed). The film...

William Raban's Sundial (1992), shot in the same location as his film Island Race, combines strongly formal procedures with an equally emphatic...

Directed by William Raban.

"Like all the works I have done which refer directly to another artist, After Lumière… is not directly 'about' the Lumière...

Raban layers recordings of successive film performances in which he stands before a projection, states the date and time, and says "A camera is...

A camera recorded one frame every minute (day and night) for two separate three-week periods in autumn and spring. The film is shown on two adjacent...

Made two months in advance of the referendum to decide whether the UK should remain within or leave the European Union, speculates on the outcome of...

With the threat of nuclear conflict between North Korea and America comes the realization that the blast effects of a nuclear strike would be...

“The film is in three parts, each one exploring the fragmentary experience of perception by resorting to various forms of temporal and spatial...

A witty take on the contingencies of the conditions in which to best read Marx. Filmed over 6 days, the time-lapse technique compresses a classic...

Shot in a remote part of Dartmoor, Breath is structured around a precise score. Three people are each given a camera loaded with 100ft of Kodachrome...

72-82 tells the story of the first ten years of Acme Studios and their ground breaking work providing artists' housing and studios in London. It also...

Documentary about architectural structures in the UK.

"For this short film event, the film is removed from the film feed reel, and is unwound, to span the space between the projector and screen. The...

Footsteps is in the manner of a game re-enacted, the game in making was between the camera and actor,the actor and cameraman, and one hundred feet of...

Following the eruption of the Lakakigar volcano, Iceland in 1783, a sulphurous haze shrouded vaste swathes of the northern hemisphere, causing...