24 Heures Sur Place

24 Heures sur Place is a film-performance set in Place de la République (Paris), forty years after Louis Malle’s documentary on this famous square and just one year after the major regeneration project by the French architects TVK. The project has transformed this well-known and bustling crossroads into a new urban oasis for the city’s residents. Standing next to the monument to Marianne, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine filmed the square from dawn to dawn. They captured everything that can happen, over the course of 24 hours, within the physical space of a public square. The film is like a moving Polaroid. Amidst politics, love stories, work-related issues, worries and hopes, a dizzying collection of portraits takes shape, capturing the mood of the French capital.