Truth to Fiction: Rat Film [In-Person Only]

Thu Mar 06:

$15 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 NWFF Member

Theo Anthony
USA
2016
1h 22m
Series - Truth To Fiction

About

(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

Presented in partnership with Seattle Film Society and Seattle Documentary Association (SeaDoc)

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1515 12th Ave,

Seattle, WA 98122

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