Through these films, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine put into question the fascination with the picture, which covers up the 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 movies about architecture, these films focus less on explaining the building, its structure and its technical details than on letting the viewer enter into the invisible bubble of the daily intimacy of some icons of contemporary architecture. Through a series of moments and fragments of life, an unusually spontaneous portrait of the building would emerge. This experiment presents a new way of looking at architecture which broadens the field of its representation.
The buildings they have chosen are mainly of architectural renown, and designed by the so called "star architects" who were awarded the Pritzker Prize.
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain.
The film Gehry’s Vertigo offers to the spectator a rare and vertiginous trip on the top roofs of the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao. Through the portrait of the climbing team in charge of the glass cleaning, their ascensions, their techniques and their difficulties, this film observes the complexity and virtuosity of Frank Gehry’s architecture.
Technical informations
Title: Gehry’s Vertigo
A film by: Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine
Image & Sound: Ila Bêka. Editing: Tiros Niakaj, Louise Lemoine. Production: Beka & Partners.
Timing: 50’. Year: 2011
Here you have the trailer, pictures and the show by different institutions.
