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....

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....

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....

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...

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’,...

‘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...

2006 experimental short work by 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...

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

"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...

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...

2006 experimental short by 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...

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....

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)....

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

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

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