
Plokta: Rat Film (2016)
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What connects racial segregation, pest control, mapping systems and WWII fears of the bubonic plague? Rats.
Digging into Baltimoreโs historic attempts โ and failures โ to deal with these notorious rodents, Theo Anthonyโs genre-bending documentary explores the underbelly of a city with deeper issues than its rat infestation. From gritty street-level views to computer-generated landscapes, from harrowing reportage to utopian mythology, Rat Film finds humanity in the most inhuman situations.
Anthonyโs investigation of his hometown encounters street rats, lab rats, rat lovers and rat exterminators. Neighbourhoods barely recovered from over a century of segregation reveal tragic and comic stories โ stories told not only by their human residents and rodent pests, but also hidden structures of demography and city planning. Here, zip codes determine peopleโs livelihoods: โNew maps, old maps, same mapsโ. As the film progresses, it becomes clear how technology and science have shaped the blueprint for social inequality in the city.
Opening the evening ahead of the main feature, ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต ๐จ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ฎ (2019) by Sjoerd ter Borg & Mark Jan van Tellingen finds another pernicious system of control in Seoul.