William Raban Movies

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...

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...

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

"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 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...

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

"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 is the starting point of a continuous investigation into ways of presenting cubist space in terms of the flat surface of the film...

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...

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...

Directed by William Raban.