William Raban Movies

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

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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

Experimental documentary following the flow of the Thames out of London to the sea.

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

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...

Commissioned by Channel 4 Television, "From 60 Degrees North" dispels the myth of the sinking of the Spanish Armada. Using records from the Spanish...

Part One: Variation in Density a)The picture on each of the five screens is identical, seven second fades from black, through clear, to black again....

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...

Directed by William Raban.

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...

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...

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

Documentary about the surroundings of a skyscraper in London.

"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 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 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 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...