Ila Bêka

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Life and career

He trained as an architect with a degree from the IUAV of Venice and the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville.

Since 2005 he has been working in collaboration with Louise Lemoine with whom he founded the research and creation platform Bêka & Partners. Presented by The New York Times as "cult figures in the European architecture world",[1] Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine mainly focus their research on experimenting new narrative and cinematographic forms in relation to contemporary architecture.[2] 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".[3]

He has been invited to lecture and present his films in many international cultural institutions and prestigious universities such as Venice Biennale (2008,[4] 2010, 2014[5]), MoMA (New-York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Palais de Tokyo[6] (Paris), Barbican Art Gallery[7] (London), Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montréal), NAi (Rotterdam, NL), MAXXI[8] (Rome), SALT (Istanbul), Harvard GSD, Architectural Association School of Architecture (London).

In 2016 Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine's complete work (16 films) has been acquired by MoMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York.[9]

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
  • 2016: Voyage autour de la Lune (75min) - Documentary

Teaching

Recognition

  • MoMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York: The complete work (16 films) of Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine has been acquired for the permanent collection.[9]
  • CNAP, Centre National des Arts Plastiques: "Koolhaas Houselife" and "La Maddalena" have been acquired for the permanent collection.
  • Awarded by Metropolis (architecture magazine) as Game Changer 2015.[2]

Awards

  • Special Jury Prize at 32nd Torino Film Festival: "24 Heures sur Place" by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine.
  • 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

References

  1. ↑ Nicolai Ouroussoff. "Inhabiting a Piece of Art: It’s Not Always So Pretty", The New York Times, 29 January 2010.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Véronique Vienne. "Game Changers 2015: Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine", Metropolis (architecture magazine), January 2015.
  3. ↑ Elsa Fernàndez-Santos. "La casa de Guadalupe", El Pais, 13 April 2009.
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  11. ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Koolhaas Houselife / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 28 May 2013.
  12. ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Pomerol, Herzog & de Meuron / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 29 May 2013.
  13. ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Xmas Meir / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 31 May 2013.
  14. ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Gehry’s Vertigo / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 1 June 2013.
  15. ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Inside Piano / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 2 June 2013.

Bibliography

  • Ada Luise Huxtable, « Ingenious and Demanding », The Wall Street Journal, 2009-09-30 [1]
  • Christopher Hawthorne, « Tuesday at the Hammer: 'Koolhaas Houselife' », Los Angeles Times, 2010-08-03 [2]
  • Frédérique Hedelmann, « Guadalupe et l'architecte », Le Monde, 2008-09-22 [3]
  • Jean-Jacques Larrochelle, « Sacrées architectures », Le Monde, 2013-04-16 [4]
  • Patricia Zohn, « Culture Zohn: Life in the Koolhaas », The Huffington Post, 2010-07-30 [5].
  • Patricia Zohn, « Ingenious and Demanding », Huffington Post, 2014-10-06 [6]
  • Rowan Moore, « 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale review: put yourself in their space… », The Guardian, 2014-06-08 [7].
  • Nicolai Ouroussoff, "Inhabiting a Piece of Art: It’s Not Always So Pretty", The New York Times, 2010-01-29. [8]
  • Oliver Wainwrigh, "Cathedrals of Culture", The Guardian, 2014-09-25. [9]
  • Susanne Kippenberger, "Raumpatrouille", Der Tagesspiegel, 2015-10-22. [10]
  • Véronique Vienne, "Game changers 2015: Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine", Metropolis Magazine, 2015. [11]
  • Elsa Fernandez Santos, "La casa de Guadalupe", El Pais, 2009-04-13 [12]
  • Elena Sommariva, "Voyage autour de la Lune", Domus, 2016-01-29 [13]
  • Karsten R.S. Ifversen, "8Tallet", Politiken, 2015-11-13 [14]

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