William Raban Movies

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

Documentary about the surroundings of a skyscraper in London.

Directed by William Raban.

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...

"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...

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

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...

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...

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

“This film is the starting point of a continuous investigation into ways of presenting cubist space in terms of the flat surface of the film...

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...

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...

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

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