Sacred Brick Technology
…a psychedelic voyage to the origins of humanity’s oldest building material and its role in Chicago’s architectural landscape.
From city, to block, to building, to brick: SACRED BRICK TECHNOLOGY draws the viewer in to take a novel look at the familiar, pervasive, and yet often unnoticed masonry unit. The film playfully combines dazzling imagery with interviews from architects, scholars, and tradespeople, and makes use of the poetry that is latent in the taxonomy of the bricks themselves to link concepts of individual identity and the magnitudes of scale in the urban environment. The film follows the brick from its beginnings at the dawn of civilization to its role in building Chicago, a staggering metropolis that has been constructed almost entirely out of the very earth on which it stands.
Selected Screenings
October 15 - October 24 2021 : Athens International Film and Video Festival
May 6 - May 16 2021 : DOXA Documentary Film Festival (Canadian Premiere)
March 17 - March 31 2021 - Big Muddy Film Festival
October 14 - October 25 2020 - Chicago International Film Festival (World Premiere)