To watch the films, please click PROGRAM: CULTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURE, and unlock the screen. Then you can watch all the films of this program. If you click each film title, you can see the brief information below.
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.
- Year2020
- Runtime14 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorIan Bertorelli
To watch the films, please click PROGRAM: CULTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURE, and unlock the screen. Then you can watch all the films of this program. If you click each film title, you can see the brief information below.
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.
- Year2020
- Runtime14 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorIan Bertorelli