Mark Lewis
Children’s Games, Heygate Estate (2002)
In this work Mark Lewis highlights the gap between utopian visions and everyday realities. The camera glides around a complex network of empty walkways in South London’s soon-to-be-demolished Heygate Estate, with the seamless movement of a computer game. Every ... (more)
In this work Mark Lewis highlights the gap between utopian visions and everyday realities. The camera glides around a complex network of empty walkways in South London’s soon-to-be-demolished Heygate Estate, with the seamless movement of a computer game. Every ... (more)
Dwegons and Leprechauns (2014)
Backstory (2009)
'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 been ... (more)
'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 been ... (more)
23rd August 2008 (2013)
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 simply recording the ... (more)
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 simply recording the ... (more)
Invention
(2015)
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. (more)
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. (more)
Cinema Museum (2008)
A first-person tour through the private collection of Ronald Grant and Martin Humphries in Britain with their curator Anna. (more)
A first-person tour through the private collection of Ronald Grant and Martin Humphries in Britain with their curator Anna. (more)
Galveston (2017)
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 immigration port, ... (more)
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 immigration port, ... (more)
São Paulo Part 2 (2019)
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). (more)
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). (more)
São Paulo Part 1 (2019)
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. (more)
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. (more)
A Sense of the End (1996)
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 of ... (more)
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 of ... (more)
The Pitch (1998)
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’, those unnamed ... (more)
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’, those unnamed ... (more)
Smithfield (2000)
Smithfield (2000), the camera peers in through the windows as though spying on the woman who is cleaning the floor inside. (more)
Smithfield (2000), the camera peers in through the windows as though spying on the woman who is cleaning the floor inside. (more)
North Circular (2000)
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. (more)
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. (more)
Jay's Garden, Malibu (2001)
Jay's Garden, Malibu follows the constant meandering of a camera through a lush, tropical garden. On closer inspection, a number of porn stars can be seen wandering around and Lewis' gaze drifts from the sexual metaphors hidden in the rich foliage to the ... (more)
Jay's Garden, Malibu follows the constant meandering of a camera through a lush, tropical garden. On closer inspection, a number of porn stars can be seen wandering around and Lewis' gaze drifts from the sexual metaphors hidden in the rich foliage to the ... (more)
Churchyard Row (2003)
Gladwell's Picture Window (2005)
Queensway, Pan and Zoom (2005)
Northumberland (2005)
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. (more)
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. (more)
Downtown Tilt, Zoom and Pan (2005)