SEPT 26—OCT 4, 2026
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Tokyo Ride, a film by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine
The internationally-acclaimed filmmakers spend a wandering day with celebrated Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa
After the multi awarded Moriyama San, Tokyo Ride is a new step of Bêka & Lemoine‘s immersion within Tokyo‘s busy daily life. Revisiting the genre of the road movie in a very diaristic and personal way, the film takes us on board of Ryue Nishizawa‘s vintage Alfa Romeo for a day long wandering in the streets of Tokyo.
More than a portrait, in the classical sense, of one of the most talented and celebrated Japanese architect of today, the film renders in its pure spontaneity the experience of this friendly urban drift. Ryue Nishizawa narrates along the way his strong relationship with his home town through some sites he personally affectionates, buildings that have influenced him, and some of his own architecture projects.
The film questions how rooted architecture practice is and how much the built and cultural environment feeds and shapes our imagination.
Winner of Artistic Vision Award, Depth of Field Competition, Best Prize —Docaviv Film Festival, 2020;
Best Prize, Milano Design Film Festival, MDFF 2020
About Bêka & Lemoine
Video-artists, filmmakers, producers and publishers, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine have been working together for the past 15 years mainly focusing their research on experimenting new narrative and cinematographic forms in relation to contemporary architecture and urban environment. Focusing their interest mainly on how the built environment shapes and influences our daily life, they have developed a very unique and personal approach which can be defined, in reference to French writer Georges Perec, as an “anthropology of the ordinary”.
Presented by The New York Times as the “cult figures in the European architecture world”, Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine are two architectural artists and fimmakers. Their films focus on the relationship of people and design, emphasising the presence of everyday life within some of the most iconic architectural projects of recent decades. Their work has been widely acclaimed as “a new form of criticism” (Mark) which “has deeply changed the way of looking at architecture” (Domus). Selected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (The Met) as one of the most exciting and critical design project of the year 2016.
The complete work of Bêka & Lemoine has been acquired in 2016 by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York for its permanent collection.
All films are exclusively available on-demand on Vimeo and through their website.