Rats on the Run is a collage of the from the squatting scene in the Netherlands. It is not fair to say that the chaos ever begins or ends, it is not fair to say that squatting ever begins or ends either.

The film is about the illigal eviction of a squat during a banner drop protest and how the police cooperated with the housing agency to kick out the squatters before the eviction date. After the eviction, the squatters squat a new squat and the cycle continues with no end.

It was a collaborative process that created a result that mixed together so many ideas of what a film can be which could not have been made without an insistance on producing this as a group and rejecting the idea of directors. The project was facilitated by the UFF server infrastructure - hosting multiple editors on one remote desktop server and keeping the files available on a NAS accessible through a vpn. The infrastructure allowed the movie to be edited from ancient laptops that would not have been albe to handle the project, sharing the computing power required.

As the initiator of the project Repelsteeltje said after we rendered it out "It feels like this is a project that was not allowed to exist." I can not believe it exists either...