William Raban Movies

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...

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

Originally, this was a four-minute time-lapse film that was shot continuously over a twenty-four-hour period. The camera was positioned on a busy...

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...

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

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

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...

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

Whilst working on previous time-lapse films, I found that colour film tended to record the actual colour of the light source rather than local colour...

"ISLAND RACE contrasts everyday events with actions of right wing extremists, counter anti-racist demonstrations, the funeral of a gangland leader,...

Shot from the 21st floor of the iconic Balfron Tower, the film takes in the city of London below. Filmed mostly in time-lapse with the camera...

A land and sea-scape film drawn from rich sources of imagery: the constantly changing mood of the sea to the distinctly different shorelines of Kent...

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...

A rapid time-lapse journey from the London Houses of Parliament to the English Channel near the port of Dover is offset by David Cunningham’s...

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

This film documents the transformation of a derelict fire station into studio and living spaces for artists. The opening of the restored building is...

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...

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...

A documentary/art film inspired by the Charles Dickens essay "Night Walks."

"This experiment determines what happens when a negative is superimposed upon its own positive image. The center of the picture forms the optical...