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...

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

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

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

2006 experimental short by Mark Lewis...

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

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 ...

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....

'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...

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’,...

"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...

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

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....

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...

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....

‘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...

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

2005 experimental short by Mark Lewis...

2003 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...