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Mark Irwin
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Biography
Mark Irwin (born August 7, 1950) is a Canadian cinematographer. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he studied political science at the University of Waterloo and Filmmaking at York University. He is best known for his collaborations with David Cronenberg (Fast Company, Scanners, Videodrome, The Dead Zone, and The Fly), Wes Craven (Scream and New Nightmare), and the Farrelly brothers (There's Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber, and Me, Myself & Irene).
Notable films
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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
Scream
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The Fly
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Wes Craven's New Nightmare
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Videodrome
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The Brood
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Scanners
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The Retirement Plan
Director of Photography
10 Things I Hate About You
Director of Photography
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Bogeyman Never Dies
From Elm Street to Halloween, Scream to Candyman, horror icons keep returning in new forms. Freddy's Dead marked a strange end that became a beginning.
8 films
The Body's Unmaking
From Cronenberg's flesh to Claire Denis's restless bodies, these eight films chart a cinema of transformation that questions where the self ends and the body be...
8 films
Metamorphosis: Bodies in Flux
From Kafka's insect to Cronenberg's flesh, a journey through cinema's most profound transformations, where identity itself is the shape-shifter.
7 films
Machines That Open the Wrong Doors
A chain of films where scientists build devices to widen the mind and find something with teeth waiting on the other side. Practical effects, saturated colour a...
8 films
The Mother Who Comes Back Wrong
A chain of films where the woman who gave you life returns as something else: a ghost, a double, a hunger with her face. Other Mommy opens the door, and the bes...
8 films
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The Retirement Plan
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2017
Descendants 2
2017
American Pie 2
2001
Freddy Got Fingered
2001
10 Things I Hate About You
1999
Zack & Reba
1998
There's Something About Mary
1998
Scream
1996
Vampire in Brooklyn
1995
Dumb and Dumber
1994
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1994
Call Me Anna
1990
Do You Know the Muffin Man?
1989
The Fly
1986
The Dead Zone
1983
Videodrome
1983
Scanners
1981
The Brood
1979