Sparked by his chance encounter with a rat stuck in a garbage can, the baltimorebased filmmaker theo anthony investigates the citys rodent infestation and uncovers its surprising. Ciske moet elke middag werken bij zijn moeder in het cafe. He causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher yet when a poliocrippled boy joins the class ciske is one of the only children to befriend him and is bullied as a result. A unique blend of history, science and scifi, poetry and portraiture, rat film explores how racial segregation, discriminatory lending practices known as redlining, and environmental racism. A film by theo anthony across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. The musical follows ciskes adventures in the 1930s, when he is expelled from school and forced to. This film is not currently playing on mubi but 30 other great films are. The rat catcher makes predictions, the locals hunt for rats at night on the streets or lie in wait with a gun in the garden. A singular, illuminating look at baltimores social. The pretitle image in rat film is of the titular critter desperately attempting to escape a trash can, as a narrator informs us that rats can jump 32 inches in the air, while a baltimore trash can is 34 inches tall, just high enough to keep the rodent in its place. Despite the title, the core of rat film is deeply human an unflinching anthropological look at the racial injustices entrenched into the citys past. The film was remade in 1984 and turned into a popular musical in 2007.
At the end of wwii a soldier who had often been ordered to execute women and children deserts and tries to find a hiding place in his native village. Rat film is a featurelength documentary that uses the rat as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill themto explore the history of baltimore. With a haunting score by baltimore native dan deacon, rat film is a chilling documentary that refuses any easy answers. Lovable amsterdam street urchin, 11 year old ciske is nevertheless much in need of love as the dutch 1984 title suggests. Featuring an original score by dan deacon, rat film is an aesthetically radical and politically incisive achievement of the highest order. Het boek is direct een succes en er worden 50 000 exemplaren van.
It is part of the ciske trilogy which was written between 1941 and 1946. After school, he helps out in a pub, where his mother marie also works. Documentary follows harold edmond, who explains the places where you can find a rat. Betje is een heel lief maar verschrikkelijk dom meisje. Fitz of fury imdb has 180min directors cut as runtime. From the flurry of sequences that launches rat film, theo anthonys experimental documentary about segregation in baltimore, its immediately apparent that the film is constructed from juxtapositions. A poor 11 year old schoolboy with a heart of gold grows up in 1930s amsterdam.
Watch the clip titled harold edmond for the film rat film 2017. These observations lend an air of unreality to the city. Rat film doc transforms unwelcome critters into metaphor of human inequality by joe oconnell, 12. Rat film connecting rat population and classism in. Sep 14, 2017 equal parts disturbing and humorous, informative and bizarre, rat film is a brilliantly imaginative and formally experimental essay on how baltimore has dealt with its rat problem and. Jun 12, 2014 this feature is not available right now. Yet when a poliocrippled boy joins the class ciske is one of the only children to befriend him and is bullied as a. Lovable amsterdam street urchin, 11 year old ciske is nevertheless much in need of love as the german 1955 title suggests. Rating is available when the video has been rented. Unfortunately, it feels almost too bizarre for its own good, and ultimately looses a lot of its impact due to its strange and very inconsistent visuals, tone, and themes. It was made into two films, a television series and a musical. Rat film is a featurelength documentary that uses the rat as well as the humans who love them, live with them, and kill them to explore the history of baltimore, a city with such a large rodent population that their garbage cans are even designed according to how high rats can jump. Rat film is a story about baltimore that isnt just about baltimore. Mar 23, 2017 the pretitle image in rat film is of the titular critter desperately attempting to escape a trash can, as a narrator informs us that rats can jump 32 inches in the air, while a baltimore trash can is 34 inches tall, just high enough to keep the rodent in its place.
Nederlands instituut voor beeld en geluid 16,282 views. Theres never been a rat problem in baltimore, its always been a people problem. Equal parts disturbing and humorous, informative and bizarre, rat film is a brilliantly imaginative and formally experimental essay on how baltimore has dealt with its rat problem and. As the film proclaims, theres never been a rat problem in baltimore, its always been a people problem. Het is aan het begin van het school jaar in 1930 in amsterdam. He causes havoc in the classroom, yet when a boy crippled by polio joins the class, he is one of the few children to befriend him and is bullied as a result. His mother works in a bar and ciske helps out often.
Rat film is a featurelength documentary that uses the ratas well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill themto explore the history of baltimore. Rat film, directed by theo anthony, film society of lincoln center, september 1529, 2017. In rat film, the catastrophic failures of urban society in baltimore is explored via the brown norway rat, dirty pest to man but also an ideal subject for experimental study. Seattles only movie times calendar, from the stranger. With 2,433,000 viewers it is the third best visited movie of the dutch cinema.
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