The 7 first films by Bêka & Lemoine.
The "Living Architectures" series is composed by the 7 first films made by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine.
“Living Architectures” is a series of films that seeks to develop a way of looking at architecture which turns away from the current trend of idealizing the representation of our architectural heritage. The cult of perfect, disembodied forms entirely devoid of people, inevitably leads to a break-up between architecture and living space.
Through these films, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine put into question the fascination with the picture, which covers up the buildings with preconceived ideas of perfection, virtuosity and infallibility, in order to demonstrate the vitality, fragility and vulnerable beauty of architecture as recounted and witnessed by people who actually live in, use or maintain the spaces they have selected. Thus, their intention is to talk about architecture, or rather to let architecture talk to us, from an "inner" point of view, both personal and subjective.
Unlike most movies about architecture, these films focus less on explaining the building, its structure and its technical details than on letting the viewer enter into the invisible bubble of the daily intimacy of some icons of contemporary architecture. Through a series of moments and fragments of life, an unusually spontaneous portrait of the building would emerge. This experiment presents a new way of looking at architecture which broadens the field of its representation.
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Press:
“Heartfelt, thought-provoking and hilariously funny!” The New York Times
“A thoroughly delightful film!” The Wall Street Journal
“Amusing, levelheaded and quite rich exception.” The Los Angeles Times
“A completely original way to tell a story. Astonishing!” Huffington Post
“A rare exception in architectural films!” The NY Review of Books
“Brilliant!” The Guardian
“A cult movie.” El Pais
“Magic!” Le Monde
“A real poetic power”. Abitare
“Laughs and exclamations of awe almost by turn!” Blueprint
“Amusing, levelheaded and ultimately quite rich exception.” - The Los Angeles Times
“A rare exception in architectural films.” The NY Review of Books
“Delightful, wonderful, cheeky, hilarious! Not to be missed.” L’Espresso
“An architecture film had never made me laugh as much! Extraordinary!” France Culture
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