"It's still raining in my bathroom"

“It is still raining in my bathroom” was uploaded 85 years after Mme Savoye wrote to architect Le Corbusier to complain (again) about the poor construction quality of Les Heures Claires / The Villa Savoye. She wrote “It’s raining in the hall, it’s raining on the ramp and the wall of the garage is absolutely soaked. What’s more, it’s still raining in my bathroom, which floods in bad weather, as the water comes in through the skylight. The gardener’s walls are also wet through.”

The video comprises three elements:

• Hi-8 footage I shot in 1999 while Julian Weaver and I visited the Villa. With three exceptions, the 'edits' are largely those in-camera choices of when I started and stopped filming;
  
• an unedited and unprocessed audio recording from my shirt pocket of an anti-austerity protest in 2002 in Tours which I joined with my friend Jim when the students who we had come to teach went on strike and barricaded their classrooms with tubular steel chairs;
  
• hand-painted excerpts of my parts of an essay that was co-written with Julian Weaver about The Villa Savoye (the architectural journal we had written for turned out to be a hoax).
  

Eugénie Savoye’s 1936 letter was reported by Jacques Sbriglio in The Villa Savoye (1997 / 2008) p. 107 that references the Fondation Le Corbusier archives FLC H1-12-157.