Louise Lemoine Torrès

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

Early life and education Lemoine grew up in Bordeaux, France. Her parents ran the family-owned newspaper, Sud Ouest (South West). After her father, Jean-François Lemoîne lost the use of his legs, the family commissioned Rem Koolhaas (OMA Architectural firm) to build a house that was wheelchair accessible The house has been featured in an architectural exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Lemoîne also later included this house in her "Living Architectures" series.

Presented by The New York Times as "cult figures in the European architecture world", Lemoine and 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 Bêka in 2008, has been acclaimed by the international critique as "the architectural cult movie". They self-financed the film in order to assure creative freedom.

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. Artist in residence at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, Japan, 2018. Selected by Icon Design as one of the 100 most talented personalities in the world in 2017. Presented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art as one of the “Most exciting and critical design project of the year 2016”.

Teaching In 2019 she teaches Diploma Unit "Homo Urbanus, Laboratory for Sensitive Observers" at AA School, Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. In 2019 she teaches the course "Voyage autour de ma chambre" at HEAD, Haute École d'art et de design de Genève. In 2017 she taught the course "The Emotion of Space" at Domaine de Boisbuchet in Lessac, France. In 2016 and 2015 she taught the course "Filming Architecture" with Marco Müller and Louise Lemoine at the AAM, the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, in Switzerland. In 2014 and 2013 she taught the course "Cinema & Architecture" at GSAPP Columbia University for the New York/Paris program.

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. Best Film at Architecture Film Festival London: "Moriyama-San" Best Film at Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa: "Moriyama-San" Best Prize, Arqfilmfest, Santiago, Chile, 2018: "Moriyama-San" Best Prize, FILAF D’OR, Festival International du Livre d’Art et du Film, Perpignan, 2018: "Moriyama-San" Best Prize, FIFAAC, Bègles, France Special Jury Prize at 32nd Torino Film Festival: "24 Heures sur Place" Best Architecture Documentaries for the film collection "Living Architectures" by the festival ArchFilmLund, 2013 Special Prize of the Jury for the film La Maddalena at Festival Sobra Arte 2015 (Lisbon).

Filmography

2008: Koolhaas Houselife (58min) - Documentary - Official Selection at 8th Venice Biennale of Architecture 2010: Inside Piano: The Submarine (39min),The little Beaubourg (26min),The power of silence (34min) - 3 Documentaries 2013: Pomerol, Herzog & de Meuron (51min) - Documentary 2013: Xmas Meier (51min) - Documentary 2013: Gehry's Vertigo (48min) - Documentary - Official Selection at 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture (extract) 2013: Living Architectures Zip (60min) - Documentary - Best Film at ArchFilmLund Festival, Sweden 2013: 25bis (46min) - Documentary 2014: La Maddalena (12min) - Video installation - Official Selection at 14th Venice Biennale of Architecture 2014: La Maddalena Chair (25min) - Video installation - Official Selection at 14th Venice Biennale of Architecture 2014: 24 Heures sur Place (90min) - Documentary - Special Jury Prize at 32nd Torino Film Festival 2014: L'expérience du vide (45min) - Documentary 2014: Barbicania (90min) - Documentary - Art project commissioned by Barbican Centre - Official Selection at DocAviv, BAFICI, AFFR, DokuArts 2015: The Infinite Happiness (85min) - Documentary - Official Selection at CPH:DOX, Chicago International Film Festival, DocAviv, FIFA, ADFF New York 2015: Spiriti (15x3min circa) - Video installation - Art project commissioned by Fondazione Prada, Milano 2016: Voyage autour de la Lune (75min) - Documentary - Official Selection at BAFICI, Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Agora Biennal 2016: Selling Dreams (25min + 12min) - Video installation - Official Selection Oslo Triennale 2017: Moriyama-San (63min) - Documentary - Best Prize at Architecture Film Festival London 2019: Butohouse (34min) - Documentary - International Premiere at DocAviv Film Festival. 2017-2019: Homo Urbanus (10 x 55min) - Video installation - Official Selection Seoul Biennale and Agora Biennale in Bordeaux 2020: Tokyo Ride (90min) - Documentary - Artistic Vision Award, Depth of Field Competition - Best Prize - Docaviv Film Festival, 2020

Published Dvd-Books Koolhaas Houselife, 2008. Koolhaas Houselife, 2013. Pomerol, Herzog & de Meuron, 2013. Xmas Meier, 2013. Gehry's Vertigo, 2013. Inside Piano, 2013. Living Architectures, 2013.