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The unité d’habitation is a modernist residential housing typology developed by Atelier Le Corbusier. The first unité d’habitation building in Marseille, France was built between 1947 and 1952. The building houses 337 apartments with 1200 inhabitants. The apartments were originally equipped with built-in furniture designed by Charlotte Perriand. The flat roof is designed in collaboration with an architect Blanche Lemco van Ginkel as a communal terrace with sculptural ventilation stacks, a running track, and a shallow paddling pool for children. The building is the first and finest example of vertical urbanism. Moi aussi, je regarde is an experimental documentary film which portrays widely reproduced building the unité d’habitation through the stories of its female inhabitants in an attempt to give the building its own agency to not only be looked at but to be empowered to look back in the masculine world of modernity.

Ingel Vaikla (1992, Tallinn) is a visual artist and a filmmaker based in Brussels working primarily with video, 16 mm analogue film and found footage. Vaikla’s artistic practice focuses on representation of architecture and on the relationship between spaces and their communities. She is on a constant search for visual language that would not simply observe architecture as a sculptural form but would translate the existential, conceptual and ideological qualities spaces manifest. Her works The House Guard, Roosenberg, Double Exposure, Papagalo, What's the Time?, EUR42 have been screened internationally at film festivals and art institutions such as IDFA in Amsterdam, Kunsthalle Wien, EKKM in Tallinn, Beursschouwburg and Bozar in Brussels, Manifesta 13 in Marseille, Videonale in Bonn, Tramway in Glasgow, EMAF in Osnabrück, Busan International Video Art Festival etc.