Movies: Mark Lewis

Family inherits an old house and to their surprise, finds the home filled with wonderful colorful creatures that brings the family together....

'Backstory' investigates the highly skilled art of 'Rear Projection', a widely used tool in film making in the mid 20th century employed in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo or Marnie. In 'Backstory' Lewis invites the Hansard family, which has...

A first-person tour through the private collection of Ronald Grant and Martin Humphries in Britain with their curator Anna....

23 August 2008 consists of two shots. A brief opening shot, intercut with inter-titles, of the famous Al-Mutanabbi Street book market in Baghdad is followed by an unbroken eighteen-minute monologue, shot from a single, still camera position and simpl...

Mark Lewis, Cold Morning (2009) Single screen projection, 7 minutes 35 seconds, HD video....

Acclaimed Canadian contemporary artist Mark Lewis echoes the classic city symphony films of the silent era with this breathtaking cinematic tour through Toronto, São Paolo, and Paris’ Musée du Louvre....

The Pitch from 1998 lasts about five minutes – the entire length of a single 35mm spool, its only movement that of a camera zooming out; in it, we see Lewis himself in the middle of the picture read a text in which he tells the story of the ‘extras’,...

2006 experimental short by Mark Lewis...

Single screen projection, 5 minutes 27 seconds, HD video....

In Spadina: Reverse Dolly, Zoom, Nude, Lewis establishes cinematic continuity between three separate scenes. The title indicates the place and progress of the film: it is a three-minute single shot, filmed in Spadina Road in the north of Toronto. We ...

Smithfield (2000), the camera peers in through the windows as though spying on the woman who is cleaning the floor inside....

2003 short video work by Canadian artist Mark Lewis...

In A Sense of the End he films six alternative endings in long shot - the man rushing to catch up with the train that bears the woman away; the gunshot victim faltering and finally collapsing in an urban wasteland. Each conclusion functions as a kind...

2005 short video work by Canadian artist Mark Lewis...

Lewis’s latest film, Galveston, 2017, newly commissioned by The Contemporary Austin and on view at the Jones Center, takes the city of Galveston, Texas, as both its setting and title. This island off the Gulf Coast has had many lives—as historic immi...

Short video art work by Canadian artist Mark Lewis, featuring figure skaters in a park at night....

2010 short video work by Canadian artist Mark Lewis...

PULL FOCUS: GASOMETER shows how illusion and reality are interchangeable. It is engaged with ideas around movement and stillness, and with the different ways that a work of art can be both experienced in time and in turn can represent time. Lewis‘ wo...

A virtual stroll between the cultural center Casa do Povo and the ruins of Art Palácio -- a cinema theater designed by Rino Levi in the 1930s -- located at Largo do Paissandú (São Paulo, Brazil)....

A virtual stroll inside the cultural center Casa do Povo (São Paulo, Brazil), ending at the basement floor of the building, where an imaginarily restored version of the Teatro de Arte Israelita Brasileiro (TAIB) is located....