Robert Kramer's ICE (1969) follows an underground revolutionary group as they carry out urban guerrilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States, while struggling against internal strife. This narrative is intermixed with sequences that explain the philosophy of radical action and play down the melodrama inherent in the thriller genre.

"I think that now, based on a lot of ICE's contradictions — between men and women, between 'activism' and 'living,' between life and death — I think that now we are starting to understand the synthesis, or at least the very diverse forms of synthesis, that will help us create a higher, clearer level of consciousness, and therefore a higher level of activism." —Robert Kramer

Film-makers’ Cooperative presenter and curator Robert Schneider described ICE as having "the tone and themes of an Alan J. Pakula paranoia thriller by way of the aesthetics of a John Cassavetes film" — on the big screen!

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Robert Kramer (1939 –1999) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 19 films between 1965 and 1999. During this time, he cemented his place as one of modern cinema’s most vital political filmmakers Jonas Mekas considered Kramer to be “a filmmaker of the first magnitude.” A former community activist, a member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and founding member of The Newsreel collective, he documented the counterculture and protest movements during the 1960s at home, and on the front lines in North Vietnam. It was from the generation of ’60s activism that this bold cinematic and journalistic voice emerged, with films that felt both original and refreshingly homegrown.

GME distributes Kramer’s ICE (1969) and THE EDGE (1969), in addition to other important films by Robert Kramer on Blu-ray/DVD editions and as downloadable DSL files.