Abraham Ravett was born in Poland in 1947, raised in Israel, and emigrated to the United States in 1955. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking and Photography and has been an independent filmmaker for the past forty years.

Abraham received grants for his work from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Japan Foundation, the Hoso Bunka Foundation, the LEF Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Foundation for Jewish Culture. His films have been screened internationally at locations including the Museam of Modern Art, the Anthology Film Archives, the Pacific Film Archive, the San Francisco Cinematheque, the LA Forum, the Image Forum in Tokyo, and Scratch Projection in Paris, among others. Abraham collaborated with Bill T. Jones on his solo performance The Breathing Show. A retrospective of Ravett's films was shown at WRO Art Center in Wrocław, Poland.

Abraham teaches filmmaking and photography at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.