Rat Film (2016)

Rat Film: Directed by Theo Anthony. With Theo Anthony, Dan Deacon, Matt Fouse, Will Kearney III. Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. This documentary uses the rat to explore the history of Baltimore.

“This movie cleverly uses a wide range of filmmaking techniques, traditional and new, to create a mosaic of the history and current conditions of a large, culturally diverse and historic city. The theme is ambiguous, which makes more effective the vignettes of poverty, willful discrimination lasting generations, and the psychology and survival methods of humans and of rodents – one of the most highly evolved of non-human species, and one closest to humans in their needs and behaviors. The editing is crisp, cutting from the historic to the present to the futuristic and back. This is not a movie about rats. Itu0026#39;s a movie that makes you think about 21st century urban life, its joys – beautiful people and places – and shortcomings. And above all, since this is not the city of our dreams, how, knowing what we see here, can we build one?”