As part of its month long celebration of Louis Sullivan, the Chicago Architecture Foundation will host a screening of the film in its lecture hall gallery on Wednesday, October 13, 6-8 p.m.
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is one of the most respected events of its kind, and one that I was privileged to be a part of this past April, where the film made its world premiere. Full Frame is taking some of the films from this year’s festival to the Des Moines Art Center, where you can catch “Louis” for its first showing in Iowa (kind of a big deal, when you consider how much of Sullivan’s work survives in that state).
I’m honored that the film will kick off “The American Architect in Focus”, a 3-week series of documentaries and features devoted to architecture. Presented by Block Cinema and the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, the series “focuses on America’s architectural heritage and the groundbreaking visionaries who defined it.”
One of the feature films will be King Vidor’s “The Fountainhead” from 1941 with Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal, from Ayn Rand’s legendary novel, a story with undeniable parallels to Louis Sullivan’s experience as a marginalized, uncompromising artist.
I’m very pleased to say that my film’s composer, Michael T. McLean, is coming in from California to be at the screening. Michael graduated with a degree in music theory from Northwestern in 1989, so this is a sort of homecoming for him. And luckily, for me, if there are any questions about the music, I can sit down and listen to someone else for a change!