Robert Kramer
The Edge / Ice (vol. 2)
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Add rightsFormat Blu-ray, DVD Interzone
Original format 35mm, 16mm
Year 1967-1969
Language(s) English, French
Artist(s) Robert Kramer
Subtitles French
Booklet 44 pages (French, English)
Running time 234 min
Films
THE EDGE (1967) 101'
ICE (1969) 133'
Description
The Edge (1967) and Ice (1969) form a definitive diptych on terrorist and insurrectionary temptations: a man wants to assassinate the President of the United States (The Edge); revolutionary groups launch a major armed offensive against the established power (Ice). Both fictions, however, are less interested in the effects of action than in the moral shock that progressively shifts relationships and convictions, superimposing another time and other logics onto those of revolutionary efficiency. Running parallel to Robert Kramer's own militant activity within Newsreel and other American left-wing organizations, they constitute their dialectical reverse, and an extraordinary implementation of cinema as a tool for thought in motion.
"I think that now, from many of the contradictions in Ice – between men and women, between "struggling" and "living," between life and death – I think that now, we're beginning to understand the synthesis, or at least the very diverse forms of synthesis through which we will manage to produce a higher, clearer level of consciousness, and consequently a higher level of struggle."
— Robert Kramer