William Raban Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

"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...

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...

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

“The film image is a row of boarded-up town houses pending demolition. Two cameras film in alternation this derelict facade from two changing...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Directed by William Raban.

“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...

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

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...