One week in the extraordinary-ordinary life of Mr. Moriyama, a Japanese art, architecture and music enlighted amateur who lives in one of the most famous contemporary Japanese architecture, the Moriyama house, built in Tokyo in 2005 by Pritzker-prize winner Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA).

Introduced in ...

After the multi awarded “Moriyama-San”, “Tokyo Ride” is a new step of Bêka & Lemoine’s immersion within Tokyo’s busy daily life. Revisiting the genre of the road movie in a very diaristic and personal way, the film takes us on board of Ryue Nishizawa’s vintage Alfa Romeo for a day long wandering ...

Koolhaas Houselife portrays one of the masterpieces of contemporary architecture of recent years: the house in Bordeaux, designed by Rem Koolhaas / OMA in 1998.
The film lets the viewer enter into the daily intimacy of the house through the stories and daily chores of Guadalupe Acedo, the houseke...

The Infinite Happiness is a highly unusual architectural experience. The film takes us to the heart of one of the contemporary housing developments considered to be a new model of success: the giant “8 House” designed in 2009 by Danish architects BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group in the suburbs of Copenhag...

Barbicania is a feature-length film capturing a month-long immersion in the life of the Barbican Centre and Estate in London, one of the most representative achievements of brutalist architecture.

The film, built as a personal diary, recounts on a daily basis what the directors duo has discovere...

Somewhere in the gigantic human anthill of Tokyo, a man resists to the infernal machinery of the great metropolis. Alone, for 15 years, he built this resistance in the form of a house. A shell? A cathedral? A folly? The work of Keisuke Oka escapes any simple definition. We should rather speak of ...

25 BIS is an intimate portrait of a masterpiece from the beginning of Auguste Perret’s career: the building located on 25 Bis, Rue Franklin in Paris. The film looks for the intangible and subjective element of the building’s history: the depth of its human print. The building appears as a sedimen...

Paris, Place de la République, 40 years after Louis Malle’s documentary and only one year after the huge renewal project by architects TVK which transformed this well known buzzy crossroads into a new urban oasis for the Parisian city dweller.

An homage to Louis Malle, this film is a like a movi...

Pomerol, Herzog & de Meuron takes us to the party atmosphere in the dining hall designed by Herzog & De
Meuron in Pomerol (France), considered one of the most prestigious vineyards in the world. In order to admire the distinctive features and traits of this building, the film is set during the cr...

“Voyage autour de la Lune” is an urban diary, a personal wandering which draws the lines of an emotional and psychological map of the city of Bordeaux along the renewed river banks, once called the “Moon Harbour” for the large curve with which the Garonne river embraces the city. Through this wee...

Xmas Meier explores the impact of contemporary architecture on people’s daily lives, and describes how the new church designed by Richard Meier in 2003 has transformed the life of the Tor Tre Teste neighbourhood in Rome, lifting it from anonymity to international renown. A surprinsingly successfu...

Gehry’s Vertigo shakes up the idealized image of one of the most iconic buildings of contemporary architecture: the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, built by Frank Gehry in 1997.

The film allows an immersion in the day-to-day life of this living myth and offers a rare and vertiginous trip on the to...

"Inside Piano" is composed of three films about three key buildings of Renzo Piano’s career.

The Little Beaubourg is a visit from the underground to the roof of the office building of the famous design firm B&B Italia. Located nearby Milan, this prototype-building of the Centre Pompidou introduc...

"Inside Piano" is composed of three films about three key buildings of Renzo Piano’s career.

The Little Beaubourg is a visit from the underground to the roof of the office building of the famous design firm B&B Italia. Located nearby Milan, this prototype-building of the Centre Pompidou introduc...

"Inside Piano" is composed of three films about three key buildings of Renzo Piano’s career.

The Little Beaubourg is a visit from the underground to the roof of the office building of the famous design firm B&B Italia. Located nearby Milan, this prototype-building of the Centre Pompidou introduc...

Conceived as a video installation commissioned by Rem Koolhaas for the Architecture International Venice Biennale (2014), “La Maddalena” deals with a political, architectural and environmental disaster which occurred in a small island of Northern Sardinia in 2009 and explores the question of fail...

Conceived as a video installation commissioned by Rem Koolhaas for the Architecture International Venice Biennale (2014), “La Maddalena” deals with a political, architectural and environmental disaster which occurred in a small island of Northern Sardinia in 2009 and explores the question of fail...

Inspired by the famous French writer Georges Perec in his short novel "Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien" (1982), this performance movie depicts in an unusual portrait the architect Alain Moatti in a one day long vertical trip in between the first and the third floors of the Tour Eiffel.
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“SELLING DREAMS”
Mark, 34 years old, Majestic Hotel, Copenhagen.

The home sharing platforms drastically changed Mark’s life.
From a cosy and normal family life, this young man entered in the vortex of a rather unusual and adventurous life experience.
From now on, Mark makes a living by renting ...

In reference to the site’s history (an ex alcohol factory), SPIRITI is an art project by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine commissioned by Fondazione Prada.

The project distils the last month of completion of the building site that will house their new arts complex in Milan built by Rem Koolhaas/OMA, ...

After the trying constraints of lockdown and social distancing that brutally reduced urban space to its strict minimum, making it into a place where isolated individuals merely cohabit, Homo Urbanus is a cinematic odyssey offering a vibrant tribute to what we have been most cruelly deprived of: n...

After the trying constraints of lockdown and social distancing that brutally reduced urban space to its strict minimum, making it into a place where isolated individuals merely cohabit, Homo Urbanus is a cinematic odyssey offering a vibrant tribute to what we have been most cruelly deprived of: n...

After the trying constraints of lockdown and social distancing that brutally reduced urban space to its strict minimum, making it into a place where isolated individuals merely cohabit, Homo Urbanus is a cinematic odyssey offering a vibrant tribute to what we have been most cruelly deprived of: n...

After the trying constraints of lockdown and social distancing that brutally reduced urban space to its strict minimum, making it into a place where isolated individuals merely cohabit, Homo Urbanus is a cinematic odyssey offering a vibrant tribute to what we have been most cruelly deprived of: n...

After the trying constraints of lockdown and social distancing that brutally reduced urban space to its strict minimum, making it into a place where isolated individuals merely cohabit, Homo Urbanus is a cinematic odyssey offering a vibrant tribute to what we have been most cruelly deprived of: n...

After the trying constraints of lockdown and social distancing that brutally reduced urban space to its strict minimum, making it into a place where isolated individuals merely cohabit, Homo Urbanus is a cinematic odyssey offering a vibrant tribute to what we have been most cruelly deprived of: n...

After the trying constraints of lockdown and social distancing that brutally reduced urban space to its strict minimum, making it into a place where isolated individuals merely cohabit, Homo Urbanus is a cinematic odyssey offering a vibrant tribute to what we have been most cruelly deprived of: n...

After the trying constraints of lockdown and social distancing that brutally reduced urban space to its strict minimum, making it into a place where isolated individuals merely cohabit, Homo Urbanus is a cinematic odyssey offering a vibrant tribute to what we have been most cruelly deprived of: n...

After the trying constraints of lockdown and social distancing that brutally reduced urban space to its strict minimum, making it into a place where isolated individuals merely cohabit, Homo Urbanus is a cinematic odyssey offering a vibrant tribute to what we have been most cruelly deprived of: n...

After the trying constraints of lockdown and social distancing that brutally reduced urban space to its strict minimum, making it into a place where isolated individuals merely cohabit, Homo Urbanus is a cinematic odyssey offering a vibrant tribute to what we have been most cruelly deprived of: n...

“OSLAVIA. The Cave of the Past Future” is a voyage inside the house-atelier where Giacomo Balla, prominent Futurist painter and major figure of the avant-garde of the early 20th century, spent the last thirty years of his life, in Rome. Of inestimable historical value, the apartment is a real pie...

Acclaimed artist-filmmakers Bêka & Lemoine take us to Bangkok on a one day hectic journey through the chaotic concrete jungle of the South-Asian megacity. Led by the moving personal story of Boonserm Premthada, one of today’s most important Thai architects, the film unfolds through a free wander,...

Recounting her personal story as a young girl who spent her childhood in rehabilitation centres alongside her severely disabled father, the director confronts her traumatic memories with the exceptional experimentation developed at REHAB in Basel by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron.

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The Sense of Tuning is a portrait of the architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai, conceived like a sketch made on the fly, captured in the vibrancy of movement and of the moment. 

Nothing of a hagiographic portrait giving a fixed image of the man and his work, the film explores the fragile, precio...