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Louise Lemoine is a French video artist and filmmaker, associate of the film production and publishing company Bêka & Partners.

She lives and works between France and Italy and she studied art history at the Sorbonne University (Paris 1) with a DEA degree under the research director fr:Nicole Brenez
Since 2005 she has been working in collaboration with Ila Bêka with whom she founded the research and creation platform Bêka&Partners.

Presented by The New York Times as "cult figures in the European architecture world",[1] Louise Lemoine and Ila Bêka mainly focus their research on experimenting new narrative and cinematographic forms in relation to contemporary architecture.
Koolhaas Houselife, the first film she co-directed with Ila Bêka in 2008, has been acclaimed by the international critique as "the architectural cult movie".[2]

Her films have been selected and awarded in some important international film festivals such as CPH:DOX, Chicago International Film Festival, DocAviv, Torino Film Festival, FIFA, etc.
She has been invited to lecture and present her 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), Harvard GSD, Architectural Association School of Architecture (London).

Her films are part of important art collections, the CNAP have acquired in 2014 a copy of Koolhaas Houselife and in 2015 a copy of the video installation La Maddalena for the French national collections. The video work Spiriti has been commissioned by Fondazione Prada for their private collection.

In 2016 Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine's complete work (16 films) has been acquired by MoMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York.[3]

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.[3]
  • 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.[4]

Teaching

Awards

  • Best Architecture Documentaries for the film collection Living Architectures by the festival ArchFilmLund, 2013.
  • Special Prize of the Jury at Torino Film Festival 2014 for the film 24 Heures sur Place. Italian Docs official selection.
  • Special Prize of the Jury for the film La Maddalena at Festival Sobra Arte 2015 (Lisbon).

Filmography

Published Dvd-Books

  • Koolhaas Houselife, 2008, ISBN 978-88-903602-0-6.
  • Koolhaas Houselife,[5] 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-00-5.
  • Pomerol, Herzog & de Meuron,[6] 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-01-2.
  • Xmas Meier,[7] 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-02-9.
  • Gehry's Vertigo,[8] 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-03-6.
  • Inside Piano,[9] 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-04-3.
  • Living Architectures, 2013, ISBN 979-10-92194-05-0.

References

  1. ^ Nicolai Ouroussoff. "Inhabiting a Piece of Art: It’s Not Always So Pretty", The New York Times, 29 January 2010.
  2. ^ Elsa Fernàndez-Santos. "La casa de Guadalupe", El Pais, 13 April 2009.
  3. ^ a b "MoMA | MoMA Collects: Architecture on Film". moma.org. Retrieved 2016-04-24.
  4. ^ Véronique Vienne. "Game Changers 2015: Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine", Metropolis (architecture magazine), January 2015.
  5. ^ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Koolhaas Houselife / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 28 May 2013.
  6. ^ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Pomerol, Herzog & de Meuron / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 29 May 2013.
  7. ^ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Xmas Meir / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 31 May 2013.
  8. ^ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Gehry’s Vertigo / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 1 June 2013.
  9. ^ 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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