One Day - One City - One Architect / 3 Films
1. Tokyo: Ryue Nishizawa (90 min - English Subtitles)
2. Mumbai: Bijoy Jain (97 min - English Subtitles)
3. Bangkok: Boonserm Premthada (93 min - English Subtitles)
More than classical portraits of three of today’s most talented and celebrated architects, these films offer, in all their spontaneity, the experience of a friendly urban drift in Tokyo, Mumbai and Bangkok.
In "Tokyo Ride", Ryue Nishizawa recounts his deep connection with his hometown as he drives through Tokyo, revisiting sites to which he feels personally attached — buildings that have shaped him and his own architectural creations.
"The Sense of Tuning" portrays architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai like a swiftly drawn sketch, captured in the vibrancy of movement and the immediacy of the moment. Conceived as a performative cinematic experience, the film reveals the alchemy between Bijoy Jain and Bêka & Lemoine — twelve hours of intense wandering that immerse us in the vital energy of Mumbai’s streets.
In "Big Ears Listen with Feet" Bêka & Lemoine take us on a frenetic one-day journey through the chaotic concrete jungle of Bangkok. Guided by the moving personal story of Boonserm Premthada, one of Thailand’s most influential contemporary architects, the film unfolds as a free wander, punctuated by striking encounters, events, and places that have shaped Premthada’s distinctive identity and sensibility.
The series "One" brings together three of Bêka & Lemoine’s most significant films — "Tokyo Ride", "The Sense of Tuning", and "Big Ears Listen with Feet" — for a total of over four and a half hours of cinema.
"Tokyo Ride" (90 min) - with Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima
"The Sense of Tuning" (97) with Bijoy Jain - Studio Mumbai
"Big Ears Listen with Feet" (93 min) with Boonserm Premthada
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TOKYO RIDE:
“Original, engaging and poetic.” - Artribune
“Masterpiece!” - Elle Decor
"Brilliant!". Designboom
"Memorable"! Damn
"Fantastic!" - Tages-Anzeiger
“Elegantly meandering. A road movie like no other!” - Azure
“Fascinating!” - Living, Corriere della Sera
“Utterly charming!” - CulturZohn
“Wonderful!” - Joseph Grima
“Excellent! Another great piece of work by Bêka & Lemoine.” - Fredy Massad - ABC
"Nishizawa's car is a "psychogeographical" element that of move the characters in space memory". Irenebrination
“Your work made me very excited. Your sense of music is great.” - Yasuo Moriyama, aka Moriyama-San
"The work of Bêka and Lemoine, foremost architectural artists and filmmakers, captures a nuanced and human relationship, the story that’s rarely told in relation to our built environment." Damn Magazine
"A perfect filmic jewel" Filmexplorer
* Best Prize, Depth of Field Competition - DOCAVIV Film Festival, 2020
* Best Prize, Milano Design Film Festival, MDFF 2020
Black and white, 90 min.
Language: English, with English Subtitles
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THE SENSE OF TUNING
“This movie, shot in the heart of Mumbai during the hottest and most humid period of the year, it’s like a scene from a Goya painting, driven by its own energy. A kind of an indian “À bout de souffle” (Breathless). - TLMagazine
“Very intimate, very artistic, very touching!” - Der Standard
“It’s a phenomenally crafted film that feels like a visually delicious journey, like a walk through Mumbai with an extraordinary man.” E. Nina Rothe in The Diaries
“Bêka & Lemoine poke around behind the scenes, and delight in clashes between the order of design and the forces of disruption: dirt, defects and inhabitants who don’t recognize the implied rules.” RIBA Journal
Color, 97 min.
Language: English, with English Subtitles
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BIG EARS LISTEN WITH FEET
“Bêka & Lemoine are film poets with an ease and a grasp of the craft in both film and architecture. They are never afraid of challenging the audience and therefore dare to hold a scene until illumination and poetry show up.” - Politiken
“So moving, intimate, poetic and beautiful!” Designboom
“A hand to hand with the tropical heat and the endless means of transport of Bangkok that makes this film very physical, just like the space is for Boonserm Premthada. A film to listen less with the ears or watch with the eyes but more to feel with the body.” Esquire
“This incredible film tells how disability leads an architect to listen and feel space in a different way, learning from elephants that “despite their large ears they perceive sound with their feet through the vibrations of the ground”. ArchDaily
Color, 93 min.
Language: English, with English Subtitles