Citation :
« But what is actually happening in the so-called New American Cinema? According to Joyce Wieland, a Toronto artist who moved to New York to make experimental films, the underground is moving closer to commercial movies, and the commercial movies are taking on an underground flavour. Rat Life and Rat Diet, a 13-minute film by Miss Wieland makes it easy to see what she means. The film is at once underground (in its attitudes, technique and anti-establishment individualism) and not underground (in the sense that it could probably find acceptance with a fairly commercial, albeit art-house, audience). »
-- Martin Knelman

Source :
KNELMAN, Martin. « Can movies survive being respectable? », Toronto Star, 12 mars 1969. [en anglais]