Screening Program:
Living Architectures

Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, authors of the film series Living Architectures, will give a talk on Thursday, April 10 at 19.00 in the Walk-in Cinema at SALT Beyoğlu.

Living Architectures is a series of films that seeks to develop a way of looking at architecture which turns away from the current trend of idealizing the representation of our architectural heritage. Through these films, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine put into question our fascination with the image of architecture, which shrouds buildings with preconceived ideas of perfection, virtuosity and infallibility, in order to demonstrate the vitality, fragility and vulnerable beauty of architecture as recounted and witnessed by people who actually live in, use or maintain the spaces they have selected. Thus, their intention is to talk about architecture, or rather to let architecture talk to us, from an “inner” point of view, both personal and subjective.

Unlike most films about architecture, Living Architectures focuses less on explaining the buildings, their structures and technical details, than on letting the viewer enter into the invisible bubble of the daily intimacy of some icons of contemporary architecture.


Ila Bêka is an Italian artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Paris. He trained as an architect with a degree from the IUAV of Venice and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paris-Belleville.

Louis Lemoine is a French filmmaker who lives and works in France. She graduated in cinema and philosophy from the Sorbonne, Paris.


With the support of Institute Français

PROGRAM

Tuesday, April 8

18.00
Living Architectures [short version] (2013)
37 minutes
Multilingual with English subtitles

Interview with Rem Koolhaas (2008)
11 minutes
Multilingual with English subtitles

19.00
Koolhaas Houselife (2008)
58 minutes
French with English subtitles


Wednesday, April 9

18.00
Living Architectures [short version] (2013)
37 minutes
Multilingual with English subtitles

19.00
Pomerol, Herzog & de Meuron (2013)
51 minutes
French with English subtitles


Thursday, April 10

18.00
Living Architectures (2013)
60 minutes
Multilingual with English subtitles

19.00
Talk: Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine


Friday, April 11

18.00
Living Architectures [short version] (2013)
37 minutes
Multilingual with English subtitles

Interview with Richard Meier (2013)
18 minutes
English with French subtitles

19.00
Xmas Meier (2013)
51 minutes
Italian with English subtitles


Saturday, April 12

14.00
Living Architectures [short version] (2013)
37 minutes
Multilingual with English subtitles

15.00
Gehry’s Vertigo (2013)
48 minutes
Spanish with English subtitles


Sunday, April 13

15.00
Living Architectures [short version] (2013)
37 minutes
Multilingual with English subtitles

Interview with Renzo Piano (2010)
30 minutes
French with English subtitles

The Little Beaubourg (2010)
26 minutes
Italian with English subtitles

The Submarine (2010)
39 minutes
French with English subtitles

The Power of Silence (2010)
34 minutes
Multilingual with English subtitles