Last Call – DemocracyICED is Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese’s new time lapse video filmed continuously during their installation on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Coinciding with America’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026, LigoranoReese’s video is testament and testimony to the administration’s ongoing attacks against the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the rule of law. 

“This is the fourth time we’ve installed democracy in ice,” Nora told the Huffington Post,  “but we’re not sure we’re going to be able to resurrect it after today. Nearly 20 years since our first installation, our democracy is so much further weakened than it was the first time we did it in 2006, with the continued expansion of executive power, the militarization of our streets, attacks on the rule of law and weakening of voters’ rights, the dismantling of public health and scientific research. There’s a long list.”

The video preserves key moments as the sculpture’s letters collapse and break apart, chronicling the public’s reactions to the artists’ 3,000 pound ice sculpture while it melted and disappeared. The film’s soundtrack adds a sense of urgency and peril with sounds of alarm bells, pounding heartbeats, and children reading the Bill of Rights’ First, Fourth, 14th, 15th, and 19th Amendments. The score steadily builds leading to the sculpture’s final climax. 

“We lived through two apartment fires, a kitchen fire and a 4-alarm fire that burnt down 3 buildings,” Marshall continues, “We know what it’s like when your house is burning down. And look, our country is in flames. This is way beyond an all out emergency.”

Last Call – DemocracyICED ice sculpture installation sponsored by Up In Arms; filmed by Bell Visuals, Washington, D.C.; live stream by Robin Bell; time-lapse video edited by Marshall Reese and Nora Ligorano; sound design by Brendan Canty; post production/color grading by Nice Shoes, NYC; ice sculpture. by Okamoto Studio.

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