<div id="subtitle">Modest Mouse video directed by late actor Heath Ledger debuts on MySpace</div><div><p>Heath Ledger's latest directorial work has been released.</p><p>The music video Ledger directed for "King Rat" by Modest Mouse debuted on MySpace.com Tuesday. The six-minute, animated video is both whimsical and dark, showing whales and dolphins aboard a ship, fishing for humans in the water.</p><p>It concludes with a message in white letters on a black screen: "This began with our friend, a great defender of life, and was completed in his spirit."</p><p>Ledger was 28 when he died last year. Modest Mouse announced in March that it would release the video in honor of Ledger's last piece of work as a director, according to spokeswoman Lisa Markowitz. The actor previously directed a video for one of Ben Harper's songs.</p><p>___</p><p>On the Net:</p><p>http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseactionvids.individual&videoid61500391</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=56162122&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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