The Ice House
Single-channel video projection
343min
color + sound

The Ice House is a 6-hour, single-take, moving image featuring the dramas of a sunken structure in Lake Superior. The piece observes an urban ruin as a gathering place and stage for a diverse cast that reveals an unscripted story of romance, humor, and risk. Set in the fleeting heat of a Duluth afternoon, distant sirens, fog horns, and train whistles act as a musical score, calling back and forth between the real world and the imagined. Focused on a fixed place in the continuum of time, the afternoon of The Ice House both transports and anchors us to the present. A reminder that the unedited experience of a single day can be the most enchanting artwork of all.

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