Sammy Nickalls, writing for Esquire, expressed the same sentiment, further adding that while "it's certainly no Interstellar, it's filled with Nolan's flair, from his gravitation toward black and white to his abstract imagery." PopMatters ' Jose Solis characterised the short film as "playful" and Following 's "most charming bonus feature." Simon Reynolds of Digital Spy listed it among nine "incredible" short films by renowned directors. Christopher Hooton of The Independent deemed it "a fairly unremarkable student film," but considered this to be a "great" thing since "it shows that Nolan was not a master from the second he first got his hands on a 16mm camera but, crucially, kept at it, kept learning and incrementally amassed an impressive set of cinematic skills that put him in command of huge budgets that allow him to fully achieve his vision". Reception ĭoodlebug was met with generally positive reviews. The film has been described as Kafkaesque psychological thriller. Escher and Jorge Borges as influences in this domain. Nolan explored the idea of multiple dimensions in its plot: in an interview with The Daily Beast, he opined that "films are uniquely suited towards addressing paradox, recursiveness, and worlds-within-worlds," and further cited the works M. It was scored by David Julyan, a friend of Nolan's from the UCL's student film society, who would go on to compose the soundtrack a number of the director's later films. He co-produced the short film with his future wife and collaborator Emma Thomas, while Jeremy Theobald, his friend from university who would also star in Following, was cast as the paranoid man. Nolan shot the film over a weekend, a technique he used the following year with his first full-length release Following, with two or three-minute excerpts being shot over the two days. The three-minute short was filmed on a negligible budget in 1997 using black-and-white 16mm film. He had written the script while studying English literature at University College London (UCL).
He crushes the bug with his shoe but is subsequently squashed by a larger version of himself.ĭoodlebug was written, directed, shot and edited by Christopher Nolan.
It is revealed that the bug resembles a miniature version of himself, with every movement it makes being later matched by the man himself. He is anxious and paranoid, trying to kill a small bug-like creature that is scurrying on the floor. The story concerns a dishevelled man in a filthy flat. The film was met with a generally positive critical response.
Nolan created the film during his university days using 16 mm film. It follows the story of a man anxiously trying to kill a bug-like creature in his flat.
Doodlebug is a 1997 short psychological thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan.
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