--- title: 'The Heart of the World (2000)' type: 'film' director: 'Guy Maddin' released: '2000-01-01' countries: - 'Canada' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-heart-of-the-world-2000' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0260948/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Heart of the World (2000) 2000 ยท Canada ## Synopsis The Heart of the World is a Canadian short film written and directed by Guy Maddin, produced for the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival. Maddin was one of a number of directors 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [Guy Maddin](https://cinepixo.com/people/guy-maddin) - **Director of Photography:** [Guy Maddin](https://cinepixo.com/people/guy-maddin) - **Original Music Composer:** [Georgy Sviridov](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgy-sviridov) - **Producer:** [Niv Fichman](https://cinepixo.com/people/niv-fichman) - **Editor:** [Deco Dawson](https://cinepixo.com/people/deco-dawson) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-heart-of-the-world-2000 Film facts: Wikidata (Q2634444); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.