page_title: Rhythm Thief
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Rhythm Thief / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: Cinematographer Howard Krupa with director Matthew Harrison on Delancey Street in New York's Lower East Side during the filming of the feature film RHYTHM THIEF.
context_page_description: Rhythm Thief is a 1994 low budget independent feature film made in New York City’s Lower East Side that was awarded a Special Jury Recognition for Directing at the Sundance Film Festival and was called “Inventive, exciting, original” by director Martin Scorsese.
  Director Matthew Harrison's second feature film, the standard 16mm black-and-white feature was made for $36,000 US. When his first feature film Spare Me won the Kodak Prix Tournage at the Avignon Film Festival, Harrison used the prize to complete Rhythm Thief. The film won top awards at SXSW, New Orleans Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, was released theatrically in the US and Europe, and is available on the Internet and DVD.
context_section_description: In June 1993 Harrison and Producer Jonathan Starch raised $12,000 to shoot the film on a 12-day schedule. Shooting commenced on June 7, 1993 based out of 124 Ridge Street Gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. “I just wanted the DP, his assistant, the sound recordist, and her boom person. (Jonathan) Starch, the producer, was also the script supervisor, the production manager, and the assistant director, all in one. He had the script and a walkie-talkie. We really did the script supervising in our heads.” “Produced In a head-spinning 11 days for just $11,000. Both the cast and crew worked for deferred pay, and the conditions were far from ideal. (‘Sometimes we'd come into the building and there'd be blood splattered on the walls,’ Harrison recalls.) But the production actually wrapped a day early and $1,000 under budget.”
  “Most of the film was shot downtown near Delancey Street in a neighborhood, he says is ‘more of a nightmare than the film shows.’ Police were curious about people jumping out of buildings and all the carrying on, but Matthew said they ignored the necessary permits when they found out the crew was only shooting a movie. The police were relieved that they were just shooting film and not shooting people.”
caption: Harrison with cameraman Howard Krupa on Delancey Street during photography of Rhythm Thief, June 1993.
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