Plokta: Rat Film (2016)

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๐—ฃ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ธ๐˜๐—ฎ is a new film festival that unravels ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—›๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ป๐—ผ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ด๐˜†.

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What connects racial segregation, pest control, mapping systems and WWII fears of the bubonic plague? Rats.

Digging into Baltimoreโ€™s historic attempts โ€“ and failures โ€“ to deal with these notorious rodents, Theo Anthonyโ€™s 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.

Anthonyโ€™s 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 peopleโ€™s livelihoods: โ€œNew 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, ๐—•๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—จ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น๐—ฎ (2019) by Sjoerd ter Borg & Mark Jan van Tellingen finds another pernicious system of control in Seoul.


Regisseur

  • Theo Anthony

Acteurs

  • Theo Anthony
  • Dan Deacon
  • Matt Fouse

Jaar

  • 2016

Speelduur

  • 1 uur en 35 minuten