Ila Bêka

Ila Bêka is a contemporary Italian artist, filmmaker and producer living in Paris. Ila Bêka is part of the artist' duo Bêka & Lemoine.

Ila Bêka, together with Louise Lemoine, "are two of the foremost architectural artists working today. Their films focus on the relationship of people and design, emphasising the presence of everyday life within some of the most iconic architectural projects of recent decades".[1] Bêka & Lemoine's complete work (16 films) was acquired in 2016 by MoMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and is now part of its permanent collection.[2] The acquisition of a complete work by MoMA, Museum of Modern Art is an extremely rare event for a living artist.[3]

Life and career

Bêka trained as an architect with a degree from the IUAV of Venice and the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville, where he studied with Aldo Rossi, Manfredo Tafuri, Vittorio Gregotti, Massimo Cacciari, Bernardo Secchi, Ugo La Pietra, Henri Ciriani and Jacques Lucan.

Since 2005 he has been working in collaboration with Louise Lemoine with whom he founded the research and creation platform Bêka & Lemoine. Described by The New York Times as "cult figures in the European architecture world",[4] Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine focus their work on experimental new narrative and cinematographic forms in relation to contemporary architecture.[5] Koolhaas Houselife, the first film Ila Bêka co-directed with Louise Lemoine in 2008, has been acclaimed by the international critique as "The architectural cult movie".[6]

Bêka has been invited to lecture and present his films at many international cultural institutions and prestigious universities such as Venice Biennale (2008,[7] 2010, 2014[8]), MoMA (New-York), Metropolitan Museum of Art[9] (New-York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Palais de Tokyo[10] (Paris), Barbican Art Gallery[11] (London), Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montréal), NAi (Rotterdam, NL), MAXXI[12] (Rome), SALT (Istanbul), Harvard GSD, Architectural Association School of Architecture (London), Mextropoli (Mexico).

According to ArchDaily, one of the most visited architecture websites worldwide, their films "alter the face of architectural criticism".[13]

Filmography

  • 2000: Millimetraggi (168 x 3min) - Short Film - Best Film at Festival du Film Très Court de Paris
  • 2001: Colomba (2min) - Short Film - Best Film at Venice International Short Film Festival in Venice
  • 2001: In Utero (11min) - Short Film - Official Selection at International Critic's Week at Cannes Film Festival
  • 2002: L'uomo dei numeri (5,30min) - Documentary
  • 2003: I have seen my mother dancing in the clouds (6min) - Short Film - Best International Short Film at 21 Torino Film Festival
  • 2004: Salome & the seven heads (6min) - Video Installation
  • 2004: Trilogy: Buongiorno (5min), Buonasera (5min), Buonanotte (5min) - 3 Short Films - Special Mention at Nastri d'Argento, Italy.
  • 2005: Quodlibet (84min) - Feature Film - Official Selection at 58th Locarno International Film Festival
  • 2005: "A Balare", a trilogy: "Frassinetti (62min), Pilastro (61min), Italicus (60min) - Documentaries
  • 2006: Passero sublime (9min) - Video installation
  • 2006: Mind scraping (5min) - Video installation
  • 2006: Contagion (5min) - Video installation
  • 2006: Reminiscenza onirica (5min) - Video installation
  • 2006: Ventre (5min) - Video installation - Best Film at Festival Internazionale Cinema d'Arte di Milano
  • 2007: Monsieur et Madame Pelletret (2 x 6min) - Video installation
  • 2007: Testamento della Memoria (38min) - Documentary
  • 2008: Koolhaas Houselife (58min) - Documentary - Official Selection at 8th Venice Biennale of Architecture
  • 2010: Sound of Space (6min) - Video installation
  • 2010: "Inside Piano": The Submarine (39min), "The little Beaubourg (26min), "The power of silence (34min) - 3 Documentaries
  • 2012: Fragments (33min) - Video installation
  • 2012: Natural Histories (11min) - Video installation
  • 2013: Pomerol, Herzog & de Meuron (51min) - Documentary
  • 2013: Xmas Meier (51min) - Documentary
  • 2013: Gehry's Vertigo, (48min) - Documentary - Official Selection at 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture (extract)
  • 2013: Living Architectures Zip (60min) - Documentary - Best Film at ArchFilmLund Festival, Sweden
  • 2013: 25bis (46min) - Documentary
  • 2014: La Maddalena (12min) - Video installation - Official Selection at 14th Venice Biennale of Architecture
  • 2014: La Maddalena Chair (25min) - Video installation - Official Selection at 14th Venice Biennale of Architecture
  • 2014: Alfred, une nuit vénitienne (70min) - Documentary
  • 2014: 24 heures sur place (90min) - Documentary - Special Jury Prize at 32nd Torino Film Festival
  • 2014: L'expérience du vide (45min) - Documentary
  • 2014: Barbicania (90min) - Documentary - Art project commissioned by Barbican Centre
  • 2015: The Infinite Happiness (85min) - Documentary
  • 2015: Spiriti (15x3min circa)- Video installation- Art project commissioned by Fondazione Prada, Milano[14]
  • 2016: Voyage autour de la Lune (75min) - Documentary
  • 2016: Selling Dreams (25min + 12min) - Video installation - Official Selection Oslo Triennale
  • 2017: Moriyama-San (63min) - Documentary - Best Prize at Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa
  • 2017: Homo Urbanus (7 x 45min) - Video installation - Official Selection Seoul Biennale and Agora Biennale in Bordeaux

Teaching

Recognition

Awards

  • Special Jury Prize at 32nd Torino Film Festival: "24 Heures sur Place"
  • Best Film at Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa: "Moriyama-San"
  • Best Film at Filaf, Festival international du livre d'art et du film de Perpignan: "Moriyama-San"
  • Best Architecture Documentaries for the film collection "Living Architectures" by the festival ArchFilmLund, 2013.
  • Best International Short Film at 21 Torino Film Festival for "I have seen my mother dancing in the clouds"
  • Best Film at Festival du Film Très Court de Paris: "Millimetraggi"
  • Best Film at Venice International Short Film Festival in Venice: "Colomba"
  • Best Film at Jameson Award for "In Utero"
  • Best Film at Premio Troisi festival for "Millimetraggi"
  • Best Film at Festival Internazionale Cinema d'Arte di Milano: "Ventre"
  • Best Film at Premio Troisi festival for "Buongiorno"
  • Best Film at Maremetraggio Festival for "Millimetraggi"
  • Best Film at Interfilm Berlin Film Festival Festival for "Buongiorno"
  • Special Prize of the Jury at Festival Sobra Arte 2015 (Lisbon): "La Maddalena"
  • Special Mention at Nastri d'Argento, Italy: "Buongiorno"

Published Dvd-Books

  • Beka & Lemoine, 2016, DVD-Box Set Volume 1 & 2. 0701197948082
  • The Infinite Happiness, 2016, DVD. 0701197948105
  • Koolhaas Houselife, 2016, DVD. 0701197948112
  • Koolhaas Houselife, 2008, ISBN 978-88-903602-0-6.
  • Koolhaas Houselife,[16] 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-00-5.
  • Pomerol, Herzog & de Meuron,[17] 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-01-2.
  • Xmas Meier,[18] 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-02-9.
  • Gehry's Vertigo,[19] 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-03-6.
  • Inside Piano,[20] 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-04-3.
  • Living Architectures, 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-05-0.

References

  1. ↑ Dobbins, Tom (30 June 2018). "Bêka & Lemoine's Award-Winning Film "Moriyama-San"". ArchDaily.
  2. 1 2 "MoMA | MoMA Collects: Architecture on Film". moma.org. Retrieved 2016-04-24.
  3. ↑ "Stati Generali".
  4. ↑ Nicolai Ouroussoff. "Inhabiting a Piece of Art: It’s Not Always So Pretty", The New York Times, 29 January 2010.
  5. 1 2 Véronique Vienne. "Game Changers 2015: Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine" Archived 2015-02-13 at the Wayback Machine., Metropolis (architecture magazine), January 2015.
  6. ↑ Elsa Fernàndez-Santos. "La casa de Guadalupe", El Pais, 13 April 2009.
  7. ↑ "The Client: and Her Architects".
  8. ↑ "Monditalia: La Maddalena".
  9. ↑ http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/met-speaks/symposia/in-our-time
  10. ↑ "LIVING ARCHITECTURES, ILA BÊKA ET LOUISE LEMOINE".
  11. ↑ "Barbicania, by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine".
  12. ↑ "Ila Bêka al Maxxi. Spazi intimi o urbani, per una pioggia di microfilm".
  13. ↑ "Architecture Criticism By the People, For the People: The Films of Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine". ArchDaily. 2015-02-02. Retrieved 2017-10-02.
  14. 1 2 "Icon Design 100 Talents".
  15. ↑ "Locarno Film Festival, "Filmare l'architettura"".
  16. ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Koolhaas Houselife / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 28 May 2013.
  17. ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Pomerol, Herzog & de Meuron / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 29 May 2013.
  18. ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Xmas Meir / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 31 May 2013.
  19. ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Gehry’s Vertigo / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 1 June 2013.
  20. ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Inside Piano / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 2 June 2013.

Bibliography

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