Mark Lewis — 导演 (7)
丝路:毒品、死亡和暗网 (2017) [电影] 豆瓣
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
导演: Mark Lewis 演员: 罗斯·乌布利希 / Austin Berglas
其它标题: Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
Documentary looking at the black market website known as the Silk Road, which emerged on the darknet in 2011. This 'Amazon of illegal drugs' was the brainchild of a mysterious, libertarian intellectual operating under the avatar The Dread Pirate Roberts. Promising its users complete anonymity and total freedom from government regulation or scrutiny, Silk Road became a million-dollar digital drugs cartel.
Homeland Security, the DEA, the FBI and even the Secret Service mounted multiple investigations in the largest online manhunt the world had ever seen. But it would be a young tax inspector from the IRS, who had grown up in the projects of Brooklyn, who would finally crack the case and unmask 'DPR'.
With unparalleled access, Silk Road is a thrilling cat-and-mouse crime story for the digital age, bristling with intrigue, mayhem... and murder.
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988) [电影] 豆瓣
导演: Mark Lewis
A fat, ugly creature whose sole purpose in life is the pursuit of sexual gratification is rapidly taking over Australia. The cane toad--Bufo marinus--was imported to Australia in 1935 in an attempt to rid the country of the Greyback beetle, which was devouring the sugarcane crop. Problem was, the beetle could fly, and the cane toad couldn't. What the cane toad was unusually proficient at, however, was making more cane toads. A very humorous look at a most peculiar problem.
建筑发明 (2015) [电影] 豆瓣
Invention
导演: Mark Lewis
其它标题: Invention
Invention is an anthology of films by leading visual artist Mark Lewis shot in Paris, Sao Paulo and Toronto. From famous corners of the Louvre Museum to the modernist buildings of Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil and Mies van der Rohe in Canada, Lewis takes us on a whirling tour of cityscapes and creates a sense of moving images through glass, light, reflections, concrete, spiral staircases, paintings and people, as well as uncanny camera movement and trompe l'oeil. By being a contemporary homage to the City Symphony films of the 1920s, it becomes a love letter to urban spaces, art and cinema.
Shot in Paris, São Paulo and Toronto, acclaimed Canadian contemporary artist Mark Lewis's film captures the ever-changing textures of these cities through moving images of glass, light, shadows and reflections. Offering a homage to the city symphony films of the 1920s, while also juxtaposing modernist architecture with the compositional structures of old master paintings.
甘蔗蟾蜍:征服 (2010) [电影] TMDB IMDb 豆瓣 维基数据
Тростниковые жабы. Оккупация
导演: Mark Lewis 演员: Neil Young
其它标题: Тростниковые жабы. Оккупация / Cane Toads: The Conquest
《甘蔗蟾蜍》,一段不寻常的历史,是一部难得一见的片子。它讲述了澳大利亚生物学上一个奇特的真实故事。1935年,为了使国家主要作物甘蔗免遭灰壳甲虫的破坏,昆士兰ZF从夏威夷引进了一批甘蔗蟾蜍。但它们的繁殖速度相当迅速,以至变成了当地的一大公害。
70年前,澳大利亚昆士兰州引进一种蔗蟾蜍以对付甘蔗田里的害虫。如今,这种蟾蜍已经进化成“同类中的强者”,对本地物种构成了威胁。
悉尼大学生物科学家理查德·希恩在新一期《自然》杂志上撰文说:“我们发现这种蟾蜍的腿部较长,不仅能够跳得更快,首先到达新领地,而且领先的蔗蟾蜍比年长的同类腿部也要长。
悉尼大学的研究人员在这场生物“入侵”的最前线――达尔文市以东60公里处,连续观察蔗蟾蜍达10个月,发现它们在潮湿环境下一晚能够跳1.8公里远,打破了青蛙蟾蜍世界中的“夜行世界纪录”。
此外,最早到达观测地的蔗蟾蜍的腿普遍比晚到者长,而昆士兰州本地蟾蜍都是“短腿一族”。
科学家认为,蟾蜍进化出更长的腿部以征服新的领地,得到更好的食物供应。他们表示,在蔗蟾蜍进化为更加危险的物种之前,必须尽快采取措施控制害虫。
希恩说,上世纪40至60年代,蔗蟾蜍的扩张速度为每年10公里,而现在的速度为每年50多公里,踪迹遍布澳大利亚热带和亚热带地区100多万平方公里的土地。)
该片是又一部圣丹斯首映的纪录片,是导演马克·刘易斯(Mark Lewis)大受好评的前作“Cane Toads:An Unnatural History”的续篇。
甘蔗蟾蜍本是进口用来拯救甘蔗作物的,但现在看来,蟾蜍的泛滥对澳大利亚生态环境造成了巨大的威胁。这部纪录片让人类意识到肆意改变生态环境所带来的可怕的恶果,是对全人类的暗示和警醒。
该片最大的卖点是全程采用了3D摄影。这部蟾蜍纪录片耗去了马克·刘易斯多年的心血。为了模拟身段极低的蟾蜍主观视角,刘易斯也和同伴们发明了专用3D摄影机进行拍摄。
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《甘蔗蟾蜍》通过作者亲身经历的趣事以及离奇古怪的现实,揭露了一个有史以来最荒诞离奇的生物错误。这是一部由一位令人激动的制片人制造的融合怪诞与创新的影片。1935年,为了使国家主要作物甘蔗免遭灰壳甲虫的破坏,昆士兰ZF从夏威夷引进了一批甘蔗蟾蜍。但是这些名声在外的科学家却没有认识到灰甲虫可以飞但甘蔗蟾蜍却不可以,于是,这个任务失败了。
显而易见,这些甘蔗蟾蜍相当适应当地的优美环境,于是它们繁殖迅速,以至变成了当地的一大公害。他们分散到各处并且四海为家,吃了一切他们能吃的东西,所谓的一切却不包括灰甲虫。当地的农民对此事的看法并不乐观。但是却没有什么可以阻止住这种掠夺式的威胁。如今,蟾蜍已经成为了郊区一道常见的风景,事实上许多昆士兰人已经通过采取“如果不能消灭他们,就让他们加入”的态度对蟾蜍进行了妥协。
无论把蟾蜍定义为害虫还是宠物,昆士兰,乃至澳大利亚,已经被这些胖胖的粘粘的生物所彻底占据了。甘蔗蟾蜍,一段不寻常的历史,据实的讲述了一个水陆两栖动物的侵略故事。
A documentary horror film about the environmental devastation left in the wake of the giant toads' unstoppable march across Australia.
不翼而飞:世纪大劫案 (2025) [电影] IMDb TMDB
Stolen: Heist of the Century
导演: Mark Lewis 演员: Agim De Bruycker / Patrick Peys
其它标题: 사라진 다이아몬드: 세기의 절도 사건 / Stolen: Der große Diamantenraub in Antwerpen
2003年的安特卫普,坚不可摧的钻石中心遭到一伙窃贼洗劫。这起全球最大劫案之一的幕后黑手是谁?他们又是如何得逞的?