Movies: Mark Lewis

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...

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

2006 experimental short by Mark Lewis...

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

'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...

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

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...

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

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

‘Bricklayers Arms’ (2008) by Mark Lewis is a 35mm film, transferred to HD video. Appearing to simulate London’s CCTV surveillance system, while replicating a video game aesthetic, Lewis’ video is a slow zoom and pan of the street corner area immediat...

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 ...

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’,...

NORTH CIRCULAR employs a single 4-minute shot. It opens with a distant shot of an abandoned, partially ruined modernist office block backlit against a violet-tinged sky and the camera glides slowly towards the building....

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

2006 experimental short work by Mark Lewis...

Lewis’ Northumberland (2005) is focused on a drystone wall in the English countryside. The frame is split almost equally between the wall and the landscape behind it....

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

"Isosceles", one of a series of films shot in London, UK, where he lives, examines a defunct triangular public restroom, stranded at the junction of several streets in the (re)burgeoning area of Smithfield Market, which dates back to the 10th century...

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