RAT
SHORT FILM
Over the course of the 4 days leading up to the election, @jonothonlyons and I and three friends went out into SoHo in the middle of the night to shoot something weird and sweet and melancholy to match our moods and try to capture the surreal energy of the boarded up city we love.
As we were shooting, clips of us filming the rat went viral...
As I was editing the short, Jonothon continued to go out as the rat and those clips went even more viral.
And then the celebrity tweets came...
Mark Ruffalo, Maggie Haberman, AOC, Michael Keaton, Mia Farrow, Ice T, The MTA, and The State of Pennsylvania love RAT!
And then the press started to write about it...
And then the street art came...
There seemed to be something about the loneliness of the pandemic, or the melancholy of the holidays, or a glimmer of joy in seeing some weird street art in New York City that connected with people all over the world.