Rhythm Thief

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.

The second feature film from director Matthew Harrison, the standard 16mm black-and-white feature was made for $36,000 US.[1] 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.