Tarantella (1989) on Netflix
A young man sleeps and suffers through a nightmare about spiders and demons, the creatures that come to him in the dream.
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Plot summary
"Tarantella" was an early Super 8 short film directed by Christopher Nolan with his childhood friend Roko Belic. It was made in 1989 while Nolan was studying at University College London. The film aired on "Image Union," a PBS programme in Chicago. It is about the suffering of a young man while he has nightmare about spiders and demons.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tarantella (1989)
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- On 11 August 2021 Christopher Nolan's own company Syncopy Inc. found an upload of Tarantella on YouTube and filed a copyright claim; five days later the video was removed from Vimeo, where the Image Union episode had been officially posted, and from archive.org.
- Christopher Nolan first offered the lead roles in Tarantella to his friends, but they turned him down, so he had to find his actors through a classified advertisement.
- Tarantella was shot in a single night, and Nolan filmed on 16 mm color stock in order to give the short its atmosphere.
