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BRICK BY CHANCE AND FORTUNE: A ST. LOUIS STORY Screens December 14th at The Pat Connoly Tavern in St. Louis

By Tom Stockman | December 7, 2017

If you haven’t seen BRICK BY CHANCE AND FORTUNE: A ST. LOUIS STORY, the documentary about St. Louis bricks, I highly recommend checking it out when it screens on December 14th at The Pat Connoly Tavern in St. Louis (6400 Oakland Ave, St. Louis 63139). The movie starts at 7pm and is FREE!

For his first feature-length documentary, Bill Streeter, creator of the internet video program and blog Lo-Fi St. Louis, chose a subject that, on the surface may have seemed like an odd choice: Brick, or specifically, St. Louis’ distinctive red brick. Streeter got the idea for his doc when his out-of-town friends kept commenting on the beauty of St. Louis’ brick buildings. The resulting film, BRICK BY CHANCE AND FORTUNE: A ST. LOUIS STORY is proof that in the right hands, a film about a subject that may seem narrow, in this case building material, can transcend its limitations to entertain and inform.

In my review of the film back in November of 2011, I wrote “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.” (read the entire review HERE). It’s an outstanding film and after seeing it, you will never look at our city’s buildings the same way again.

A Facebook invite for the screening can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/134984837200314/