Melt It! The Film of The Iceman

In the 1980s and 1990s, Anthony Irvine was a comedian and cabaret performer. His act was a little unusual. As the Iceman, he went on stage… to melt ice. Literally. He’d bring a large block of ice onto the stage, then try to melt it (or fail to melt it) in a variety of creative ways.

Among his fans were Mike Myers, Stewart Lee and Bill Bailey. In 2010, Rob Wringham, in the process of writing a book about that era of comedy, could not track him down, but a few years later, Irvine popped up as a visual artist called Aim.

A warm-hearted look at a pioneering performance artist disguised as a comedian, this is an incredibly charming dive into the different incarnations of one man’s art.