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STL Today
Diane Keaggy wrote this nice piece about our film for the St. Louis Post Dispatch and STLToday.com in August:
Bill Streeter’s award-winning video blog, Lo-Fi Saint Louis, boasts St. Louis’ best musicians, artists and burlesque queens. But for his first feature-length film, Streeter showcases a subject that, on the surface, seems pretty dull: brick.
“I admit it seems a little nutty,” Streeter says. “But the more I learned about the history here and how that history is being stolen by brick thieves, I realized this could be a good film. One of the things that helped me think it was OK is when I saw that movie ‘Helvetica.’ I figured if someone can make a movie about a typeface, I can make a movie about a building material.”
“Brick by Chance and Fortune” had its debut at the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase and will play twice this week at Off Broadway. The title, taken from Greek historian Plutarch, alludes to our geological jackpot: the clay beds that lie beneath large areas of St. Louis.
Our First Review!
We were anxious to read our first review and it’s good! check this part out:
Like anything we see every day, brick is largely taken for granted, which is why BRICK BY CHANCE AND FORTUNE: A ST. LOUIS STORY is such a revelation. Even viewers who’ve never given St. Louis brick a second thought should be impressed how Streeter unexpectedly manages to turn a seemingly narrow subject into the type of relevant discourse that a great documentary should be.
–Tom Stockman We Are Movie Geeks
We’re very proud, read the whole review here.
Photos From Our First Screening
We were amazed by the turn out and the support we had at our St. Louis Debut. When we arrived there was a line around the block! We came very close to selling out the theater. Our friend Jeffrey Fort provided little squeezy bricks and brick cupcakes! It was a blast and the film was very well received. Photos below.
KMOX
Debbie Monterrey was kind enough to have Bill on to talk about the film. You can hear that here.
Fox 2 St. Louis
John Pertzborn, a brick collector himself was kind enough to have us on last week. This was a fun segment.
KWMU Cityscape on St. Louis Public Radio
Our director Bill Streeter chatted about Brick by Chance and Fortune on St. Louis Public Radio’s Cityscape. You can here the archive of the program here.
Look/Listen STLMag.com
This is a really nice writeup by Thomas Crone on the Look/Listen Blog from St. Louis Magazine. Read it here.
Daily RFT on Our Mention on Tosh.0
The Daily RFT covers our coverage and now we’re reporting that, it’s like a riddle wrapped in a mystery, rolled up in an enigma! Ok here’s the link.
Tosh.0
Got a mention in a characteristically snarky post on Tosh.0. We’re not offended, we would expect nothing less from Tosh.0. Read it here
About Brick By Chance and Fortune
St. Louis is a city with a rich heritage of brick architecture. Home to some of the largest and most innovative clay working companies of the nineteenth century, you can still see some of the finest examples of brick work ever produced all over the city and region. Today the city's brick heritage is under threat by neglect, brick theft and urban renewal.
