Film Screening: ICEPICK TO THE MOON

FREE for members, $5 suggested donation for non-members

Icepick to the Moon is a documentary about The Rev. Fred Lane from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The wildly strange singer / performance artist developed a cult following in the 1980s when his two albums became popular on college radio. Director Skizz Cyzyk will introduce the film and be available to answer questions after.

“Lane sings in a style described as “stripmine crooning,” whatever that means. It’s energetic, talented lounge music with rambling, uncanny lyrics. He is regarded by his frighteningly obsessed fans as subversive, satirical, the Dada Duke Ellington, and a Demon Frank Sinatra. The music sounds like a speakeasy in hell, but in a good way, with solid musicianship and vocals. Fred Lane’s albums are monuments of whimsical absurdity right down to the cover art. The covers are busily crammed with misinformation, including collections of art for other, nonexistent albums. They serve only to muddy the waters and confuse, just coherent enough to tantalize you into thinking there might be some deeper meaning, and there might be, who’s to say otherwise?I”
– Bradley Gibson, Film Threat, Published April 2018