CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
Podtalk: Rebecca Fons & Jack C. Newell on 5th ‘Destroy Your Art’
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CHICAGO – It’s five times the fun for the fifth time. Filmmaker Jack C. Newell and Rebecca Fons of the Gene Siskel Film Center will conduct their 5th “Destroy Your Art” event. The idea is a filmmaker creates a film, shows it once to the audience, and then destroys it forever. This will take place this year at the historic Music Box Theatre on Tuesday, September 26th, 2023. For more information, including tickets, click DYA.
“Destroy Your Art” will feature four filmmakers – Ariella Khan, Michael Glover Smith, Ines Sommer, and Blair St. George Wright – as they show their short films. After that ONE SHOWING, the films will be destroyed forever (last year it was a controlled blowtorch flame) never to be seen again. The concept challenges the notions of permanency, images, expression and our perception of what time/space means. Audience participants, and the filmmakers themselves, will be the only witnesses to the final products, before they are never shown again.
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Married couple and co-creators of Destroy Your Art, Rebecca Fons and Jack C. Newell, are one of the most prominent film couples in Chicago. Fons is the currently the Director of Programming at the Gene Siskel Center, and owns the Iowa Movie Theater (with her mother Marianne) in Winterset, Iowa. Jack C. Newell is a prolific movie director – who also created The Second City Film School – with feature credits including “Close Quarters” (2012), Open Tables (2015), “Hope Springs Eternal” (2018), the documentary “42 Grams” (2018), Monuments (2020) and “Christmas with Felicity” (2021). His latest documentary is last year’s “How (not) to Build a School in Haiti.”
In a Podtalk with Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, Rebecca Fons and Jack C. Newell talk about the “Destroy Your Art” concept …
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