So one more piece of culture to add to Ledger’s post-mortem legacy. Apparently at the time of his death he was in the midst of directing a video for Modest Mouse for their tune, “Rat King.” It was apparently supposed to be sort of a visual plea against “the illegal commercial whale hunts taking place off the coast of Australia.”
So while Ledger conceived the bit and had begun production, it remained unfinished after his untimely death. After Ledger’s death, the film and music company The Masses, which counted Ledger as a member, finished the video with support from Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock.
The video is supposed to premiere today on MySpace and the proceeds from iTunes video downloads in the first month of release will go toward Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization organization committed to ending the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans.
As soon as the video goes live (sometime today) we will post it here if MySpace allows it to be embedded elsewhere…
UPDATE: the video is under the cut. Have a gander…
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August 4, 2009
Heath directed three other music videos before his death. They’re all on YouTube:
Morning Yearning by Ben Harper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlNGEpief3Q
Cause An Effect by N’fa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1BIpJLofBc
Seduction is Evil by N’fa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqhq-ExSNxU