"Ice" screening in Portland
Posted December 7, 2008 by icky in Events
The 16mm movie "Ice" is showing this week in Portland. This is a great movie- kind of a science fiction radical how-to of revolution made in 1969 when it seemed, realistically, just around the corner.
If you haven't seen this and you're interested in experimental film or radical history or near future low budget sci-fi (or none of these things) you should come see this... it's fucking great!
ICE by ROBERT KRAMER
[1969, 134 MIN]
December 9&10, 7:30pm
11 N.W. 13th Ave (btn Burnside & Couch)
Portland, OR
$6
Doors open 30 minutes prior to scheduled start time. Elevator access is provided, please come to the door so we can accomodate. City Center parking is available for $7 on 14th street. For access to the space from the 3rd floor enter from the western stairwell
"Born in New York in 1939, Robert Kramer ranks as one of the most original directors of American underground cinema. A committed leftist who emerged radicalized from his studies in philosophy and Western European history at Swarthmore and Stanford, he worked as a reporter in Latin America and organized a community project in a black neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, before founding the Newsreel movement—an underground media collective which made some sixty documentaries and short films about radical political subjects and the antiwar movement between 1967 and 1971. His films constantly work at wearing away the impermeability of documentary and fiction forms, paying special attention to his characters. A pioneering work that blurred the boundaries between fictional and documentary styles, Ice was hailed by filmmaker and Village Voice critic Jonas Mekas as "the most original and most significant American narrative film" of the late sixties. An underground revolutionary group struggles against internal strife which threatens its security and stages urban guerrilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States. Interspersed throughout the narrative are rhetorical sequences that explain the philosophy of radical action and serve to restrain the melodrama inherent in the "thriller" genre. " - Harvard Film Archive
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Hey there! This movie looks SO COOL! I have an overwhelming desire to see/show it. Do you have any idea where I might find it in full??
Thank you!
-Zack
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for those of us, not in portland, you can stream a portion of this movie here- http://www.ubu.com/film/kramer.html -lots of other great things here as well...
Posted by: erik_r at December 8, 2008 12:55 PM