Louise Lemoine

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

Contents

• Interview with ila b ka and louise lemoine
• Recognition
• Teaching
• Awards
• Filmography
• Published Dvd Books
• References

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", 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".

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.