Mortar

Director-writer-editor/HD/Colour/14mins 30secs/2007

A huge building designed as one of the first UK steam powered ice-houses in 1886 has stood empty, facing the sea in Hastings, East Sussex for over forty years.

The film gives a voice to the building, as slowly decaying, it remembers its past; ice-maker, meat storage, gun club.

Voice: Elizabeth Marshall
Sound: Andrew Nicol
Sound design: Rebecca E Marshall
thanks to The Icehouse, Brighton Engineerium, Iceworld, George Street Butchers.
Supported by Awards for All.

Screenings include:
Cinema Utopia, Bordeaux, France, 2013
Last Tuesday Society, London, 2012
The Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, 2008
The Icehouse, Hastings, 2007
The Electric Palace Cinema, 2018 (Black Huts Film Festival)