Home Movies 1971-81 TrailerAfter Manet, After Giorgione – Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe or Fete Champetre TrailerAfter Lumière – l'Arroseur arrosé Trailer
William Raban is an artist filmmaker who has exhibited worldwide in both art and film contexts. Initially known for his landscape and expanded cinema films of the 1970s, Raban's landscape interests, were framed in the 80s towards a more historical and socio-political context: the history of London and the Thames.
Total trailers found: 35
01 January 1985
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
01 January 1975
Le déjeuner sur l’herbe is simultaneously perceived from four different camera positions in a work which engages with the pro-filmic in order to question documentation, illusion and the film viewing process.
15 July 1972
A camera recorded one frame every minute (day and night) for two separate three-week periods in autumn and spring.
31 December 2016
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 the vote.
13 October 2014
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.
01 January 1976
"This experiment determines what happens when a negative is superimposed upon its own positive images
01 January 1978
“The film is in three parts, each one exploring the fragmentary experience of perception by resorting to various forms of temporal and spatial dislocation.
01 January 1974
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 film.
01 January 1973
"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.
01 January 2005
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 and the Pas de Calais – twenty-one miles of water that define both the “island race” and English hostility towards a wider integration within Europe.
01 June 2013
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 the passage of time as the movement within a wave, where the individual particles of water remain static despite an illusion of movement upon the surface.
01 January 1974
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 film and instructed to walk away from a tape recorder that has been placed within the landscape.
01 January 2011
A documentary/art film inspired by the Charles Dickens essay "Night Walks."
01 January 2020
Following the eruption of the Lakakigar volcano, Iceland in 1783, a sulphurous haze shrouded vaste swathes of the northern hemisphere, causing widespread crop failures, consequent famine and disease across Europe, parts of America, North Africa, and India.
01 January 2010
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 tracking across this aerial field of view, the intention is to create a cinematic map that exposes the neural networks of the post-modern metropolis; producing a film that reveals the workings of London’s nervous system.
01 January 1972
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 when long time exposures were used.
05 September 1973
Three screen piece. "I was looking for a pure image, an image which was intrinsic to the medium of film.
01 January 2004
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 musical score composed from fragments of Margaret Thatcher’s Belgrano speech.
01 January 1972
Originally, this was a four-minute time-lapse film that was shot continuously over a twenty-four-hour period.
01 January 1974
“The film image is a row of boarded-up town houses pending demolition. Two cameras film in alternation this derelict facade from two changing viewpoints.
09 June 2019
With the threat of nuclear conflict between North Korea and America comes the realization that the blast effects of a nuclear strike would be outweighed by the potentially irreparable damage to the Earth’s atmosphere.
01 January 1970
"The film alternates from recording in time-lapse (one frame every ten seconds) to running through the camera at 24 f.
06 September 1973
“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 screen.
01 January 2000
This film documents the transformation of a derelict fire station into studio and living spaces for artists.
11 March 2016
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 text (Karl Marx's 'Das Kapital') into a 9 minute experience, raising questions as to how film might transcend verbal language.
10 August 1986
Experimental documentary following the flow of the Thames out of London to the sea.
01 January 1974
"Like all the works I have done which refer directly to another artist, After Lumière… is not directly 'about' the Lumière original.
02 January 1992
William Raban's Sundial (1992), shot in the same location as his film Island Race, combines strongly formal procedures with an equally emphatic political message, which is conveyed through careful juxtaposition of objects in the field of view.
01 January 1996
"ISLAND RACE contrasts everyday events with actions of right wing extremists, counter anti-racist demonstrations, the funeral of a gangland leader, and the jingoistic street parties celebrating Victory in Europe Day.
01 January 1977
Part One: Variation in Density a)The picture on each of the five screens is identical, seven second fades from black, through clear, to black again.
05 September 1973
Raban layers recordings of successive film performances in which he stands before a projection, states the date and time, and says "A camera is filming the audience watching yesterday's audience watching the blank screen.
