Ben Lewis (filmmaker) explained

Ben Lewis (born 1966) is a British art critic, historian and documentary filmmaker.^[1]

Books

• 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^[2]
• 2008: Hammer & Tickle. The Communist Joke Book, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Also published in Germany, Portugal, Poland, Slovenia and Italy^[3]

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",^[4] 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^[5]
• 2005: Blowing Up Paradise, about French nuclear testing in the Pacific, Special Jury Prix at the FIFO (2008)^[6]
• 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) ^{[7] [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

Notes and References

1. https://benlewisprojects.com/blog/ben/biography-3 "Ben Lewis"
2. Web site: Nicholl . Charles . Charles Nicholl (author) . 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. Web site: Ben Lewis Guest Editor. 20 April 2010.
4. https://www.culturenorthernireland.org/features/film/foyle-film-festival-2009 "Foyle Film Festival 2009"
5. https://zff.com/en/archive/programme-2006/award-winners/ "ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL ARCHIVE PROGRAMME 2006 AWARD WINNERS"
6. https://www.maisondelaculture.pf/le-palmares-du-fifo-2008/ "LE PALMARES DU FIFO 2008"
7. https://www.grimme-preis.de/archiv/2007/preistraeger/p/d/ben-lewis/ Grimme-Preis 2007 Ben Lewis
8. https://www.grimme-preis.de/archiv/2007/preistraeger/p/d/art-safari-zdfarte/ "Grimme-Preis 2007 Art Safari (ZDF/ARTE)"
9. https://griersontrust.org/grierson-awards/past-awards/2002/the-grierson-awards-2002-winners/ "The Grierson Awards 2002: Winners"