"Ice to me is the most original and most significant American narrative film in...years. I like its slow, measured flow, which is mysterious, unpredictable, full of dark corners....I like its movements, its people, its mood. The film probes in depth the most urgent contemporary realities. Robert Kramer is a filmmaker of the first magnitude." (Jonas Mekas, Village Voice) Sometime in the future, an underground revolutionary organization plans the first stage of a guerrilla struggle. Part sci fi, part thriller, part study/part exposé of the politics of radicalism, and "shot with a grainy, frightening immediacy, the film is....a series of vivid images of what the overthrow of the American state might look like. Comrades meet surreptitiously in safe houses; political education of the masses is held at gunpoint on apartment rooftops; training takes place on a farm in Vermont...and behind everything is the state's perverse punishment....Ice is as frightening for the sensibilities that created the film as for the tense, nightmarish qualities of the footage." (Thomas Brom, PFA '78)