William Raban Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

“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...

Directed by William Raban.

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...

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

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

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

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...