Rat Film
Actual rats helped compose the soundtrack of Rat Film, a meditation on urban planning and pest control in Baltimore. Musician Dan Deacon ended up giving a pack of rodents free run of a theremin—a rare electronic instrument typically controlled by a musician's hand gestures—to generate the basis for a piece called "Redlining."
Theo Anthony's film is impressionistic rather than argumentative, and it would have benefited from a slightly more conventional human being somewhere—anywhere!—in the production process to check its excesses. But give Anthony credit: He has combined raw and compelling human stories about poverty with floods of data about the ways governments and other entangled institutions reinforce segregation, even in an era that theoretically frowns on the practice of sorting white from black and rich from poor.
Plus, there's a lot of weird stuff about rats.
This article originally appeared in print under the headline "Rat Film."
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Good to hear that rats helped to compose the soundtrack for Rat Film. But, I hate rats, because last week, two rats were in my home and tried to destroy all electrical wires. I had tried some poisons, but they were of no use. Then my neighbor had suggested me to call up some experienced Brooklyn pest control team. Later on, they are the one who had able to help us to get rid of them.