Ben Lewis
Ben Lewis (born 1966) is a British art critic, historian and documentary filmmaker.
Ben Lewis
- Born
- 1966
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- art historian · filmmaker · film producer · documentarian · director · film screenwriter
- Fields
- documentary film
- Known for
- Google and the World Brain · Hammer & Tickle · The Last Leonardo: Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting
- Languages
- English
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Documentaries
• 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", 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 • 2005: Blowing Up Paradise, about French nuclear testing in the Pacific, Special Jury Prix at the FIFO (2008) • 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) • 2001: The King of Communism: the pomp and pageantry Nicolae Ceausescu, Best Historical Documentary award from Grierson Awards (2002) • 1999: The Lost Race; history of the National Front and its splinter groups
Books
The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is documentary film. Works named in the authority record are Google and the World Brain, Hammer & Tickle and The Last Leonardo: Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting.
• 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 • 2008: Hammer & Tickle. The Communist Joke Book, Weidenfeld & Nicolson • Also published in Germany, Portugal, Poland, Slovenia and Italy
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- 1."Ben Lewis", an autobiography
- 2.Nicholl, Charles. The Last Leonardo by Ben Lewis review – secrets of the world's most expensive painting Art and design books. The Guardian. 17 April 2019.
- 3.Ben Lewis Guest Editor. 20 April 2010.
- 4."Foyle Film Festival 2009"
- 5."ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL ARCHIVE PROGRAMME 2006 AWARD WINNERS"
- 6."LE PALMARES DU FIFO 2008"
- 7.Grimme-Preis 2007 Ben Lewis
- 8."Grimme-Preis 2007 Art Safari (ZDF/ARTE)"
- 9."The Grierson Awards 2002: Winners".
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