Ben Lewis (filmmaker)
Ben Lewis (born 1966[1]) is a British art critic, historian and documentary filmmaker.[2]
Books
[edit]- 2019: The Last Leonardo: Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting, a history and investigation of the Salvator Mundi painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci[3]
- 2008: Hammer & Tickle. The Communist Joke Book, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Also published in Germany, Portugal, Poland, Slovenia and Italy[4]
Documentaries
[edit]- 2017: The Beatles, Hippies and Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple (unauthorized film; narrated by Peter Coyote)
- 2013: Google and the World Brain
- 2009:The Great Contemporary Art Bubble, "explores the current international art market, from its heady peak to its inevitable crash",[5] best feature documentary at the Foyle Film Festival
- 2006: Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book, a documentary about Russian political jokes, best documentary at the Zurich Film Festival[6]
- 2005: Blowing Up Paradise, about French nuclear testing in the Pacific, Special Jury Prix at the FIFO (2008)[7]
- Since 2003: Art Safari series;
- Art Safari-1: films on Maurizio Cattelan, Gregor Schneider, Matthew Barney, and relational art (theories of the French curator and art citic Nicolas Bourriaud)
- Art Safari-2: Wim Delvoye, Sophie Calle, Takashi Murakami, and Santiago Sierra
- Bronze prize at the New York Television Festival (2007), North Rhine-Westphalia Special Prize for Culture ( NRW Sonderpreis Kultur) at the Adolf-Grimme-Preis (2007) [1][8]
- 2001: The King of Communism: the pomp and pageantry Nicolae Ceausescu, Best Historical Documentary award from Grierson Awards (2002)[9]
- 1999: The Lost Race; history of the National Front and its splinter groups
References
[edit]- ^ a b Grimme-Preis 2007 Ben Lewis
- ^ "Ben Lewis", an autobiography
- ^ Nicholl, Charles (17 April 2019). "The Last Leonardo by Ben Lewis review – secrets of the world's most expensive painting | Art and design books". The Guardian.
- ^ "Ben Lewis Guest Editor". 20 April 2010.
- ^ "Foyle Film Festival 2009"
- ^ "ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL ARCHIVE PROGRAMME 2006 AWARD WINNERS"
- ^ "LE PALMARES DU FIFO 2008"
- ^ "Grimme-Preis 2007 Art Safari (ZDF/ARTE)"
- ^ "The Grierson Awards 2002: Winners"
