William Raban Movies

"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...

This film documents the transformation of a derelict fire station into studio and living spaces for artists. The opening of the restored building is...

“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...

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

Directed by William Raban.

“The film is in three parts, each one exploring the fragmentary experience of perception by resorting to various forms of temporal and spatial...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...