INSIDE PIANO

Friday, April 17 / 7 pm
DIR:Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine
2013 / FRA/ 99 MIN
Italian/French, with English subtitles
Prologue: Sotirios Kotoulas, Architectural teacher and writer

Plus REDDRESS
DIR: Jonathan Clabburn, Panacea Films
2011 / FIN/ 5 MIN

Sponsored by Cibinel Architects

Inside Piano is composed of three films on three symbolic buildings of Renzo Piano’s career with a humorous, caustic and quirky point of view. A visit throughout the prototype-building of the Centre Pompidou, an immersion in the soundproof world of a submarine floating in the depths of the Parisian underground, and a journey aboard a luminous magic carpet of a highly sophisticated architectural machine.

“Living Architectures” is a series of films that seeks to develop a way of looking at architecture which turns away from the current trend of idealizing the representation of our architectural heritage.

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.

Source: Diego Hernandez, Archdaily 2 June 2013

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REDDRESS is the documentation of an installation and performance space in the form of a colossal, red dress at the 2011 London Design Festival.