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'To the Rhythm of My Heart' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre and released in 1983.[Patrick Schupp, "Au rythme de mon coeur, Ralisation :Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, Canada (Qubec), 1983, 80 minutes". 'Squences', Issue 115 (January 1984). pp. 32-33.] Made during his national tour of Canada for a 1981 retrospective of his films compiled by the Canadian Film Institute, the film is a video diary documenting both his philosophical and creative discussions on the co-operative movement in cinema as part of the tour and the concurrent illness and death of his wife, film editor and producer Marguerite Duparc.[Peter Harcourt, "Jean Pierre Lefebvre's Au rythme de mon cur / To the Rhythm of My Heart". 'Cinema Canada', April 1984.]
The film's origins were in a short "video postcard" that Lefebvre had planned to record for film studies students at Ryerson University after hosting a workshop there in 1980.[Jay Scott, "Festival of Festivals: An intriguing 'film diary'". 'The Globe and Mail', September 13, 1983.] Much of the film was shot with an old Bolex camera that had to be frequently rewound, leading Lefebvre long known for films that had a slow, languid pacing to quip "Don't be worried, there are no long shots, so it's my fastest film."[
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The film premiered at the 1983 Toronto International Film Festival.["World premieres set for festival". 'The Globe and Mail', September 7, 1983.] Jay Scott of 'The Globe and Mail' positively reviewed the film, writing that "The images he finds are wonderful: a long sequence, scored to a Moog he reports he purchased "from Radio Shack", of lights flickering on water; a black Labrador, suspicious in the white snow; a kitten, worrying a baby mouse to death; and a ferry with railings stark and rigid in formal frontality, like a Christopher Pratt print reconstituted for the silver screen. To The Rhythm of My Heart is experimental and non-linear - "the emotion is really in the form of the film," as Lefebvre puts it - but it is usually fascinating and never forbidding."[
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The film received a Genie Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985.[Jay Scott, "Bay Boy reels in 11 Genie nominations". 'The Globe and Mail', February 15, 1985.]
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