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The Heart is a Drum Machine

Mar 09, 2010 | IMDB 5.2

74 min Watch Now

Documentary, Music

What is music? Many of today's top artists and scholars grapple with the question in this cinematic look at a uniquely human obsession. The Heart is a Drum Machine is a new feature documentary film project from the producers of Moog.

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Maynard James Keenan, Jason Schwartzman, Elijah Wood, Ann Druyan, John Frusciante

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