Monday Happenings

Still from Ice courtesy Harvard Film Archive.

On its release, Robert Kramer's Ice (1969) was infamous in lefty circles for its unflinching look at political commitment and the ethics of armed struggle. A pseudo-documentary set in a fictional near-future police state, the film follows a group of New York radicals as they arm themselves and prepare for the overthrow of the government. A rarely screened but significant document in the history of radical filmmaking. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $8/$6.

Japan Rap

The weekly Beat Research DJ party invites Ian Condry, a cultural anthropologist from MIT, to throw down some Japanese hip hop. Condry wrote the book on the various Japanese rap scenes, and he will bring examples from them all, as he spins a set that emphasizes the diversity of Japan's hip hop. The Enormous Room, 567 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 9 p.m. Free.

Trippy Music

Prolific jazz guitarist Joe Morris performs as "MVP" with bassist John Voigt and trombonist Tom Pisek, and the ensemble takes on the music of legendary Boston pianist Lowell Davidson, who wrote his avant-garde jazz pieces as bizarre watercolor graphics, somewhere between music and abstract art. The event will feature video projections of the scores as the band performs. David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music, 921 Boylston St., 7:30 p.m.