SHOOT THE DONKEY: Heath Ledger's imaginative anti-whaling music video

SHOOT: What's great about this is the classic test of whether something is right or wrong, good or not - put yourself in that position and how would you feel? Ledger's video does this very clearly and cleverly.

A music video directed by Heath Ledger, which illuminates the late actor's passion for animal rights and his close creative relationship with director Terry Gilliam, has been released online.

Ledger was 28 when he died of an accidental drug overdose in January 2008. His last film, Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, will be released in the UK in October. Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law stepped in to shoot the scenes Ledger did not complete.

The video, for King Rat, a rare single by American indie band Modest Mouse, was also left unfinished and has been completed by Gilliam and a collective of directors and artists who call themselves the Masses. The six-minute animation imagines a world in which whales are the hunters, scouring the seas for human prey.