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...

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

"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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

Directed by William Raban.

Documentary about architectural structures in the UK.

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

"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...

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

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...

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 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...

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...

“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...