Ila Bêka
Ila Bêka (also Ila Beka or Ilabeka) is an Italian artist, filmmaker, producer and publisher living in Paris.
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 who 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. 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".[2]
He has been invited to lecture and present his films in many international cultural institutions and prestigious universities such as Venice Biennale (2008, 2010, 2014), MoMA (New-York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Barbican Art Gallery (London), Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montréal), NAi (Rotterdam, NL), MAXXI (Rome), SALT (Istanbul), Harvard GSD, Architectural Association School of Architecture (London).
Since 2013 he teaches "Cinema & Architecture" at GSAPP Columbia University for the New York/Paris program. Since 2015, he teaches "Filming Architecture" with Marco Müller and Louise Lemoine at the AAM, the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, in Switzerland.
He has been awarded by Metropolis (architecture magazine) as Game Changer 2015.[3]
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
Published Dvd-Books
- Koolhaas Houselife, 2008, ISBN 978-88-903602-0-6.
- Koolhaas Houselife,[4] 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-00-5.
- Pomerol, Herzog & de Meuron,[5] 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-01-2.
- Xmas Meier,[6] 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-02-9.
- Gehry's Vertigo,[7] 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-03-6.
- Inside Piano,[8] 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-04-3.
- Living Architectures, 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-05-0.
References
- ↑ Nicolai Ouroussoff. "Inhabiting a Piece of Art: It’s Not Always So Pretty", The New York Times, 29 January 2010.
- ↑ Elsa Fernàndez-Santos. "La casa de Guadalupe", El Pais, 13 April 2009.
- ↑ Véronique Vienne. "Game Changers 2015: Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine", Metropolis (architecture magazine), January 2015.
- ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Koolhaas Houselife / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 28 May 2013.
- ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Pomerol, Herzog & de Meuron / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 29 May 2013.
- ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Xmas Meir / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 31 May 2013.
- ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Gehry’s Vertigo / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 1 June 2013.
- ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Inside Piano / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 2 June 2013.
External links
Bibliography
- Ada Luise Huxtable, « Ingenious and Demanding », The Wall Street Journal, 2009-09-30
- Christopher Hawthorne, « Tuesday at the Hammer: 'Koolhaas Houselife' », Los Angeles Times, 2010-08-03
- Frédérique Hedelmann, « Guadalupe et l'architecte », Le Monde, 2008-09-22
- Jean-Jacques Larrochelle, « sacrées architectures », Le Monde, 2013-04-16
- Patricia Zohn, « Culture Zohn: Life in the Koolhaas », The Huffington Post, 2010-07-30 .
- Patricia Zohn, « Ingenious and Demanding », Huffington Post, 2014-10-06
- Rowan Moore, « 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale review: put yourself in their space… », The Guardian, 2014-06-08 .