Interview with Ben Lewis in ARTPULSE Magazine
An ArtPulse interview with Ben about the current art market.
The Bubble @ Akademie der Künste, Berlin
The Great Contemporary Art Bubble is screened at a Berlin exhibition.
Watch the new Sinti & Roma film!
- click here to watch the German version of the film – It’s finally finished! The Memorial to Sinti and Roma victims of the Holocaust finally opened in Berlin on October 24th 2012. Two years ago, RBB/Arte asked me to make a short film “Das zerrissene Herz” (The Broken Heart) for them about this monument, ...
Google and the World Brain at Sundance
Ben’s new documentary ‘Google and the World Brain’ got selected for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance Film Festival 2013. Latest press clippings: Numerama: “Google et le Cerveau du Monde” : un documentaire prometteur “wowlebrity Ben Lewis” in World of Wonders Spanish news report in europapress.es
Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty
“Poor Us” is a global overview of the history of the poor people, from 10,000BC to today’s era of globalisation. Animation, interviews, motion graphics and archive are combined in this innovative, mould-breaking documentary which imagines the history of poverty as a never-ending dream – nightmare. “Poor Us” – not poor them – makes you, the viewer, ...
Poor Us on TV
Ben’s new documentary Poor Us: an animated history of poverty is shown on 72 different TV channels worldwide, all part of the film series Why Poverty?. Tuesday, 27 November 2012, 21.05: ARTE (Germany/France) Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 22.30: BBC4 (UK)
Sinti and Roma documentary on German TV
Ben’s documentary Das zerrissene Herz (2012) is shown on RBB, 24 October at 22.45 and on Arte, 25 October at 15.50. The film investigates the new Sinti and Roma monument in Berlin. Ben speaks to the monument’s artist Dani Karavan, to Sinti and Roma, contemporary witnesses, Jews, to historians, politicians and to the chairman of the German ...
Google and the World Brain
The story of the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet, and the people who tried to stop it In 1937 the science fiction writer HG Wells predicted the creation of a “World Brain”, which would contain all the world’s knowledge and be accessible to all of mankind. This all-knowing entity would replace nation ...