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King Rat by Modest Mouse
Title:
King Rat by Modest Mouse
Year
2009
Heath Ledger directed this animated music video for 'King Rat' by Modest Mouse. The video's concept of a whale hunting people was designed to raise awareness about the practice of whale hunting.
The video was completed after Ledger's death. A title card at the end reads 'This began with our friend, a great defender of life, and was completed in his spirit'.
Notes by Beth Taylor
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.