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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

"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...

"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...

Three screen piece. "I was looking for a pure image, an image which was intrinsic to the medium of film. This film is not an abstract film; the...

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

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...

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