Doodlebug (1997) on Netflix
A disheveled man in a filthy flat is anxious and paranoid. Something small and bug-like is scurrying across the floor, and he is trying to kill it.
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Plot summary
Something is moving across the floor of a filthy flat, small and bug-like, and the man who lives there means to kill it. He is disheveled, anxious and paranoid. The short was shot in black and white on 16mm film over a weekend, and its story draws on ideas of paradox and worlds within worlds, with M. C. Escher and Jorge Luis Borges cited as influences.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Doodlebug (1997)
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- Christopher Nolan shot his 1997 short Doodlebug over a single weekend, a technique he used the following year on his first feature, Following, filming it in two or three-minute excerpts across two days.
- Nolan wrote the Doodlebug script while studying English literature at University College London, and made the three-minute short on a negligible budget in black-and-white 16mm film.
- Nolan said he explored multiple dimensions in Doodlebug's plot, telling The Daily Beast that films are uniquely suited to addressing paradox, recursiveness and worlds-within-worlds, and citing M. C. Escher and Jorge Luis Borges as influences.
