William Raban Movies

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

Directed by William Raban.

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

“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...

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...