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August 5, 2009
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The animated clip is for the song “King Rat” and shows humans being hunted and killed at sea by whales, which calls attention to Heath’s opposition to the commercial whale hunting that occurs off the coast of his native Australia.
Heath approached Modest Mouse singer Isaac Brock with the idea for the video in January 2007.
The band said in a statement, “The video was fully conceived down to the last detail but unfinished when Heath passed away in January 2008. In the interest of fully realizing Heath’s final work as a visual artist, a music company called The Masses finished the video in his honor, with the support and advocacy of Isaac Brock.”
Check out the video below:
March 18, 2009
Image by wenn.com
Modest Mouse singer Isaac Brock says Heath decided to direct their video after meeting him in Australia.
He told VH1, "Heath and I have a mutual friend, and when we were in Australia, my fiance and some of us in the band went out on a boat with him and his family and friends and talked about the idea.The idea sort of dropped, but then he just sent me an email saying that he wanted to do it."
The video is animated by director and illustrator Daniel Auber, a member of Ledger's art collective the Massive. While it may not seem like much, these are two of Heath’s last projects he worked before he died. So just given that information, they will definitely get more attention than a regular music video would.
