Mark Lewis Movies

2006 experimental short by 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...

2003 short video work by Canadian artist Mark Lewis

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

"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...

2005 experimental short by Mark Lewis

NORTH CIRCULAR employs a single 4-minute shot. It opens with a distant shot of an abandoned, partially ruined modernist office block backlit against...

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

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...

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

Lewis’s latest film, Galveston, 2017, newly commissioned by The Contemporary Austin and on view at the Jones Center, takes the city of...

2006 experimental short work by Mark Lewis

‘Bricklayers Arms’ (2008) by Mark Lewis is a 35mm film, transferred to HD video. Appearing to simulate London’s CCTV surveillance...

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,...

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...

'Backstory' investigates the highly skilled art of 'Rear Projection', a widely used tool in film making in the mid 20th century employed in films...

PULL FOCUS: GASOMETER shows how illusion and reality are interchangeable. It is engaged with ideas around movement and stillness, and with the...

2005 short video art work by Canadian artist Mark Lewis

In Spadina: Reverse Dolly, Zoom, Nude, Lewis establishes cinematic continuity between three separate scenes. The title indicates the place and...