Films by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, shown at biennales worldwide

Films by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine are currently being shown at biennale’s worldwide. Bêka and Lemoine are Unit Masters with Gili Merin of the Diploma Unit 16: Homo Urbanus: Laboratory for Sensitive Observers.

The latest film by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine, BUTOHOUSE, is currently on show at Orléans Biennale of Architecture "Nos années de solitude" at FRAC Centre until 19/01/2020.

BUTOHOUSE is a brutalist portrait of Japanese architect-artist Keisuke Oka who has been building alone for the past 15 years his house in the center of Tokyo, just in front of a masterpiece by Kenzo Tange. Inspired by butoh dance, this concrete building follows the dynamic of an everyday total improvisation.

The long term project Homo Urbanus by Bêka & Lemoine, shot in 9 different cities (Bogotà, Saint-Petersburg, Tokyo, Kyoto, Shanghai, Doha, Rabat, Naples, Seoul), is now on show at: "Todo dia", 12th International Architecture Biennale in Sao Paolo (Brazil); "Un instant avant le monde", Biennale internationale d'art contemporain de Rabat (Morocco); "Amman Design Week" (Jordan)

Homo Urbanus is also the subject this year of Bêka & Lemoine's Diploma Unit program at the AA, within their "Laboratory for sensitive observers". More information on the unit.