The Heart of the World (2000)
The Heart of the World (2000)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Currently The Heart of the World is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Criterion Channel
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
Cast & Crew.
Leslie Bais
Anna
Caelum Vatnsdal
Osip
Shaun Balbar
Nikolai
Greg Klymkiw
Akmatov
Tammy Gillis
Mary Magdalene
Carson Nattrass
Centurion
Niv Fichman
Executive Producer
Guy Maddin
Director
Deco Dawson
Editor
Jennifer Weiss
Co-Producer
Jody Shapiro
Producer
Barbara Pritchard
CastingDirector
David McCallum
Sound Designer
Réjean Labrie
ProductionDesigner
Lou Solakofski
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Meg McMillan
Costume Design
Olaf Dux
Art Direction
Vladimir Gabyshev
Music Supervisor
Beverly A. Hamilton
Makeup & Hair
Javier Cámera
Second Assistant Director
Maiah Levene
First Assistant Director
Glen Philpot
First Assistant Director
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The Heart of the World is a short film written and directed by Guy Maddin, produced for the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival. Maddin was one of a number of directors (including Atom Egoyan and David Cronenberg) commissioned to make four-minute short films that would screen prior to the various feature films at the 2000 festival as part of the special Preludes program. After hearing rumours that other directors were planning films with a small number of shots, Maddin decided that his film would instead contain over 100 shots per minute, and enough plot for a feature-length film. Maddin then wrote and shot The Heart of the World in the style of Russian constructivism, taking the commission at its literal face value, as a call to produce a propaganda film. Even in its expanded, 6-minute version, The Heart of the World runs at a breakneck speed, averaging roughly two shots per second, a pace intensified by the background music, Time, Forward! by Georgy Sviridov.