Robert Kramer's Ice and Milestones: Cinema and Political Struggle

Robert Kramer's films Ice (1969) and Milestones (1975) are examined in an article by Dork Zabunyan. Ice depicts urban guerrilla organization in New York, exploring armed struggle's connection to revolutionary horizons. Actor Paul McIsaac noted the film served as a guide for its politically engaged cast, showing what such struggle could look like. Milestones revisits the diverse struggles of the era without nostalgia or disenchantment, following a journey across the United States to encounter street-people, aiming to let them speak and recover their voices amid economic crisis and the lingering Vietnam War. Together, the films address how forms of struggle evolve across periods despite historical defeats, resisting amnesia and fostering understanding of current mutations.