Rat Film

Rat Film

Across walls, fences and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. Rat Film is a provocative documentary that uses the rat – as well as the humans who love them, live with them, and kill them – to explore the history of Baltimore. “There’s never been a rat problem in Baltimore – it’s always been a people problem,” says one local rat exterminator. Clearly influenced by the cinematic language from the era of Internet videos, director Theo Anthony in his urbanistic essay loosely combines archive materials, maps and urban plans with documentary portraits of excluded communities’ inhabitants in order to point out the history of social and racial segregation whose fruits continue to be identifiable in the divided American society to the present day. His film is a precisely researched study, an accusation and a formally innovative work of art.

  • Year:
    2016
  • Runtime:
    82
  • Country:
    USA
  • Director:
    Theo Anthony
  • Screenplay:
    Theo Anthony
  • Dir. of Photography:
    Theo Anthony
  • Music:
    Dan Deacon
  • Editor:
    Theo Anthony
  • Production:
    Memory
  • Sales:
    Visit Films
  • Festivals:
    Locarno 2016, Vancouver 2016, Doc Lisboa 2016, Torino 2016, Rotterdam 2017, Atlanta 2017 (Best Documentary Feature), Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017 (Youth Jury Award – Special Mention)

Schedule:

10.11.2017 16:00 Kino Mladosť

About the Director:

Theo Anthony

(1989, Washington, D.C., USA) is a writer, photographer and filmmaker currently based in Baltimore, Maryland. His work has been broadcast by The Atlantic, Vice, BBC World News, and other international media outlets. His films have premiered at prestigious international film festivals in Toronto, Locarno, and Rotterdam, the SXSW music festival and at the Anthology Film Archives museum in New York. In 2015, he was listed by Filmmaker Magazine as one of “25 New Faces of Independent Film”.