William Raban Movies

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

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

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...

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...

Documentary about architectural structures in the UK.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Directed by William Raban.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...