The Sense of Tuning - Bijoy Jain / Studio Mumbai. New film by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine
07/01/2024.
[Mumbai] India
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For more than ten years, video artists, producers, and editors, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine have been conducting research that stands out by its experimentation with new narrative and cinematographic forms in relation to contemporary architecture and the urban world. They rose to fame with the film "Koolhaas Houselife" which was followed by others such as "La Maddalena", "Moriyama-San" or "Tokyo Ride."
The Cartier Foundation co-produced Bêka & Lemoine's latest film about the Indian architect Bijoy Jain, which was presented on December 12, 2023, on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition “Breath of an Architect” by Bijoy Jain / Studio Mumbai and in collaboration with the CNC (Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée).
The Cartier Foundation co-produced Bêka & Lemoine's latest film about the Indian architect Bijoy Jain, which was presented on December 12, 2023, on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition “Breath of an Architect” by Bijoy Jain / Studio Mumbai and in collaboration with the CNC (Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée).
The Sense of Tuning by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine. Photograph by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine.
The Sense of Tuning by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine. Photograph by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine.
The Sense of Tuning by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine. Photograph by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine.
The Sense of Tuning by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine. Photograph by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine.
The Sense of Tuning by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine. Photograph by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine.
The Sense of Tuning by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine. Photograph by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine.
The Sense of Tuning by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine. Photograph by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine.
The Sense of Tuning by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine. Photograph by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine.
The Sense of Tuning by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine. Photograph by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine.
The Sense of Tuning by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine. Photograph by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine.
The Sense of Tuning by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine. Photograph by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine.
The Sense of Tuning by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine. Photograph by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine.
The Sense of Tuning is a portrait of the architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai, conceived like a sketch made on the fly, captured in the vibrancy of movement and of the moment.
Conceived as a performative cinematic experience, this film captures the alchemy of an encounter between Bijoy Jain and Bêka & Lemoine: twelve hours of intense wandering, immersing ourselves in the vital energy of the streets of Mumbai and its bustling daily life. With visual notes taken in the privacy of the studio, observations of the city's informal tactics, and visits to production sites, the film reveals how closely Bijoy Jain's work is linked to the city of Mumbai and how it has influenced his practice. , unique identity, and sensitivity.
A sensory film where gesture becomes the language of intuition.
Conceived as a performative cinematic experience, this film captures the alchemy of an encounter between Bijoy Jain and Bêka & Lemoine: twelve hours of intense wandering, immersing ourselves in the vital energy of the streets of Mumbai and its bustling daily life. With visual notes taken in the privacy of the studio, observations of the city's informal tactics, and visits to production sites, the film reveals how closely Bijoy Jain's work is linked to the city of Mumbai and how it has influenced his practice. , unique identity, and sensitivity.
A sensory film where gesture becomes the language of intuition.
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The Sense of Tuning
France/India 2023, 4K, Color, 96 min.
Directors
Director of photography
Ila Bêka.
Editing
Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine.
Colorist
Melo Prino.
Sound mix
Walter Amati, Fuji Studio.
Produciton Coordinator
Nena Aru.
Production
Bêka & Partners with the kind support of Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine Bêka and Lemoine
Ila Bêka y Louise Lemoine. Artists, filmmakers, producers and publishers, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine have been working together for the past 10 years mainly focusing their research on experimenting new narrative and cinematographic forms in relation to contemporary architecture. Since 2007 they have been developing a film series entitled “Living Architectures”. “Koolhaas Houselife”, renowned as the “architecture cult movie” (El Pais), is probably the most famous film of their series, featuring Guadalupe - the irresistible housekeeper of the Bordeaux House built by Rem Koolhaas.
Selected as one of the 100 most talented personalities of 2017 by Icon Design, presented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) as one of the “most exciting and critical design project of the year 2016”, the complete work of Bêka & Lemoine has been acquired in 2016 by the Museum of Modern Art in New-York (MoMA) for their permanent collection. Their films have been widely shown in some of the most prestigious international cultural institutions and events such as the Venice Architecture Biennale, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Barbican Centre (London), CCA (Montreal) and Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy).
Selected as one of the 100 most talented personalities of 2017 by Icon Design, presented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) as one of the “most exciting and critical design project of the year 2016”, the complete work of Bêka & Lemoine has been acquired in 2016 by the Museum of Modern Art in New-York (MoMA) for their permanent collection. Their films have been widely shown in some of the most prestigious international cultural institutions and events such as the Venice Architecture Biennale, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Barbican Centre (London), CCA (Montreal) and Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy).
Bijoy Jain Studio Mumbai
Studio Mumbai, works with a human infrastructure of skilled artisans, technicians and draftsmen who design and build the work directly. This group shares an environment created from an iterative process, where ideas are explored through the production of large-scale mock-ups, models, material studies, sketches and drawings.
Projects are developed through careful consideration of place and practice that draws from traditional skills, local building techniques, materials and an ingenuity arising from limited resources. The Studio has designed the 2016 edition of Melbourne’s MPavilion, an annual commission touted as Australia’s answer to London’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, and is having projects in India, Japan, Switzerland and South of France.
Bijoy Jain was born in Mumbai, India in 1965 and received his M. Arch from Washington University in St Louis, USA in 1990. He worked with Richard Meier in Los Angeles and London between 1989 and 1995 before returning to India in 1995 to found his practice. a He has taught in Copenhagen, Yale and Mendrisio.
Exhibitions include those held at the Venice Biennale (2010, 2012 and 2016), Between the Sun and the Moon: a major monographic touring exhibition at Arc en Rêve, Centre d’Architecture Bordeaux, FR (2015), DAM Frankfurt, DE (2016) and DAC Copenhagen, DK (2016); Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, Canada (2014), Sharjah Biennial (2013), 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces, Victoria & Albert Museum (2010).
Awards include the Global Award in Sustainable Architecture (2009), finalist for the 11th cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2010), winner of the seventh Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award, Finland (2012), winner of the third BSI Swiss Architecture Award (2012), most recently winner of the Grande Medaille d’Or from the Academie D’Architecture, Paris, France (2014), and the University of Hasselt, Belgium bestowed an honorary doctorate on Bijoy Jain in 2014.
Projects are developed through careful consideration of place and practice that draws from traditional skills, local building techniques, materials and an ingenuity arising from limited resources. The Studio has designed the 2016 edition of Melbourne’s MPavilion, an annual commission touted as Australia’s answer to London’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, and is having projects in India, Japan, Switzerland and South of France.
Bijoy Jain was born in Mumbai, India in 1965 and received his M. Arch from Washington University in St Louis, USA in 1990. He worked with Richard Meier in Los Angeles and London between 1989 and 1995 before returning to India in 1995 to found his practice. a He has taught in Copenhagen, Yale and Mendrisio.
Exhibitions include those held at the Venice Biennale (2010, 2012 and 2016), Between the Sun and the Moon: a major monographic touring exhibition at Arc en Rêve, Centre d’Architecture Bordeaux, FR (2015), DAM Frankfurt, DE (2016) and DAC Copenhagen, DK (2016); Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, Canada (2014), Sharjah Biennial (2013), 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces, Victoria & Albert Museum (2010).
Awards include the Global Award in Sustainable Architecture (2009), finalist for the 11th cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2010), winner of the seventh Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award, Finland (2012), winner of the third BSI Swiss Architecture Award (2012), most recently winner of the Grande Medaille d’Or from the Academie D’Architecture, Paris, France (2014), and the University of Hasselt, Belgium bestowed an honorary doctorate on Bijoy Jain in 2014.
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