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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

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Scream

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Fly

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Videodrome

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Appears in a KinoChain journey

10 Things I Hate About You

Director of Photography

Dumb and Dumber

Director of Photography

American Pie 2

Director of Photography

There's Something About Mary

Director of Photography

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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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

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