Ben Lewis (filmmaker)

Ben Lewis (born 1966^[1]) is a British art critic, historian and documentary filmmaker.^[2]

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^[3]
2008: Hammer & Tickle. The Communist Joke Book, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Also published in Germany, Portugal, Poland, Slovenia and Italy^[4]

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