Bêka & Lemoine
Bêka & Lemoine are artists-filmmakers working at the intersection of visual arts and non-fiction cinema. For twenty years, they have explored how people experience, perceive, and relate to space on emotional, social, and cultural levels through innovative narrative and cinematic forms.
Their films have been widely screened and awarded at major international documentary film festivals and exhibited in both solo and collective exhibitions at leading art and architecture institutions, including Fondation Beyeler, Fondation Cartier, Fondation Prada, MAXXI, Venice Biennale, and Barbican Art Gallery, among others.
In 2016, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) acquired their complete body of work produced up to that date. Their films are part of other renowned collections including MAXXI (Rome), Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), and Fondazione Prada (Milan).
They have directed over thirty films and, in 2023, published the book The Emotional Power of Space.
Selected Filmography
The Sense of Tuning (2023), Rehab (from Rehab) (2023), Big Ears Listen With Feet (2022), Tokyo Ride (2020), Homo Urbanus (2017–ongoing), Moriyama-San (2017), The Infinite Happiness (2015), Barbicania (2014), 24 heures sur place (2014), Koolhaas Houselife (2008).
Festival Selection and Prizes
CPH:DOX (2024, 2021, 2015, 2009); Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Opus Bonum 2023); DocAviv (2021, 2018, 2015, 2014 – Artistic Vision Award for Tokyo Ride); Chicago International Film Festival (2015, 2017); BAFICI (2018, 2014); DOK Leipzig (2017); Torino Film Festival 2014 (Best Prize Italian Docs for 24 heures sur place).
