Between a poetic essay and a travel diary, L’acte d’habiter explores what it means today to ‘inhabit’ a heritage. Eight artists engage with Art Nouveau sites in Oradea, Aveiro, Nancy, Mons, and Brussels. By living and creating in these spaces, they reactivate an architectural memory that the film approaches as living matter, crossed by utopias and fractures, to further question our present.
Director – Alexandre Humbert
Alexandre Humbert (1989, FR) is a designer and filmmaker who writes, creates and constructs Cinematographic Objects. Between installations, fictions and documentaries, his eye captures gestures and materials, revealing the hidden stories of design and architecture. From residencies to museums, he crafts sensitive works exploring the links between memory, space and creation. His work has been exhibited and screened internationally, and is included in the collections of the Design Museum Gent (BE), the Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (FR) and MUDAM (LU).