Moriyama-san (film screening with Q&A)

Moriyama-san

Sunday, June 1, 1:00PM (ET)

Doors open 12:30PM | Film Screening | In-Person | JFT Event Hall 

Directed by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine • 2017 • Documentary • 63 minutes • Presented in English • Trailer

One week in the life of Mr. Moriyama, a Japanese art, architecture and noise music enthusiast who lives in one of the most famous contemporary Japanese architecture, the Moriyama house, built in Tokyo in 2005 by Pritzker Prize-winner Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA).

Introduced in the intimacy of this experimental microcosm which redefines completely the common sense of domestic life, Ila Bêka recounts in a very spontaneous and personal way the unique personality of the owner: a urban hermit living in a small archipelago of peace and contemplation in the heart of Tokyo. From noise music to experimental movies, the film lets us enter into the ramification of the Mr. Moriyama’s free spirit.

The directors of Moriyama-san, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, will be in attendance via video call for a virtual Q&A session following the screening.

Presented in conjunction with the Built Environment exhibition, currently on display in the JFT Gallery.

Free admission. Register below.

Director Profile:

Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine are artists and filmmakers working at the crossroads of visual arts, non-fiction cinema and architecture. For the past twenty years they have been experimenting with new narrative and cinematic forms to explore how people experience, perceive, and relate to space from an emotional, social, and cultural standpoint.

Bêka & Lemoine have made over thirty films, among which ‘Koolhaas Houselife’ (2008), ‘Barbicania’ (2014), ‘The Infinite Happiness’ (2015), ‘Moriyama San’ (2017), ‘Tokyo Ride’ (2020) and the city-matographic odyssey in 14 films ‘Homo Urbanus’ (2017-ongoing). Their films are widely shown at renowned international film festivals and prominent art and architecture museums and events, such as the The Venice Biennale, the Barbican Art Gallery in London, among many others. In 2016, the MoMA – Museum of Modern Art in NY acquired the entire work of Bêka & Lemoine produced until that date for its permanent collection.

Bêka & Lemoine are regularly invited to lecture in some leading universities: GSD / Harvard University (USA), GSAPP / Columbia University (New-York, USA), AAP / Cornell University (USA), Bartlett School of Architecture / UCL (London, UK). In 2018 they have been laureate of Villa Kujoyama, French residency program for artists in Japan, and Ila Bêka has been laureate Italian Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.