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".

Site: www.memory.is/rat-film

a film by Theo Anthony 

Theo Anthony is a filmmaker based in upstate New York. His first feature documentary, Rat Film, premiered internationally at the Locarno Film Festival and domestically at the 2017 True/ False Film Festival. It has since received wide critical acclaim, receiving a nomination for a 2017 Gotham Award for Best Documentary Feature film as well as a Cinema Eye Honor nomination for Best Debut Feature. 

His follow up, Subject to Review, produced for ESPN’s 30 for 30 series, played at the 2019 New York Film Festival and was broadcast nationally later that year. Theo is the recipient of the 2018 Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Fellowship and the 2019 Sundance and Simons Foundation Science Sandbox Fellowship. In 2015, he was named to Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

His most recent feature, All Light, Everywhere, premiered in competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury award. 

http://www.theoanthony.net/