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William Raban

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Camera Operator:
1974  Footsteps

Cinematography:
1974  Footsteps

Director:
1970  View
1972  Broadwalk
1972  Colours of this Time
1972  River Yar
1973  2'45"
1973  Angles of Incidence
1973  Diagonal
1973  Take Measure
1974  Breath
1974  Footsteps
1974  Time Stepping
1976  Surface Tension
1977  Thames Barrier
1978  Autumn Scenes
1978  Fergus Walking
1986  Thames Film
1992  Sundial
1994  A. 13
1996  Island Race
2000  Firestation
2004  Civil Disobedience
2004  MM
2005  Continental Drift
2010  About Now MMX
2011  The Houseless Shadow
2013  Time and the Wave
2014  72-82
2016  Available Light
2016  London Republic
2019  Lakakigar
2020  Laki Haze

Writer:
1970  View
1972  Broadwalk
1972  Colours of this Time
1972  River Yar
1973  2'45"
1973  Angles of Incidence
1973  Diagonal
1973  Take Measure
1974  Breath
1974  Footsteps
1974  Time Stepping
1976  Surface Tension
1977  Thames Barrier
1978  Autumn Scenes
1978  Fergus Walking
1986  Thames Film
1992  Sundial
1994  A. 13
1996  Island Race
2000  Firestation
2004  Civil Disobedience
2004  MM
2005  Continental Drift
2010  About Now MMX
2011  The Houseless Shadow
2013  Time and the Wave
2014  72-82
2016  Available Light
2016  London Republic
2019  Lakakigar
2020  Laki Haze

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