About the Film
(Theo Anthony, 2016, USA, 82 min, in English)
Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. “Rat Film” is a feature-length documentary that uses the rat—as well as the humans that 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.”
Director Statement:
My documentary work challenges the journalistic role of presenting an objective account of experience. I am interested in making films that explore how subjective reality is commodified to fit outsider’s narratives of consumption and production. I want to understand how this process is used to anesthetize pain, to eliminate accountability, and how the divisions of artist and subject in film production mimic larger capitalist modes of exploitation. I want to make films that use a familiar visual language that can simultaneously speak to and challenge these histories of representation.
~ Theo Anthony
Synopsis courtesy of Memory
What
A Documentary Series Presented in partnership with Northwest Film Forum and Seattle Documentary Association (SeaDoc)
Where
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122
When
Thursday, March 6th / 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Tickets
Tickets can be purchased here.