Nolan’s obsession with time, identity, and paranoia actually began with a scrappy 3-minute student film.
His first feature. A struggling writer follows strangers for inspiration—until he’s dragged into crime and obsession. Shot in stark black and white, fractured across three timelines, it’s pure Nolan DNA.
His very first short, co-directed with Roko Belic, was a surreal, expressionist horror. Abstract cuts, distorted angles, a sense of madness—early signs of the nonlinear storyteller he’d become.
A man stalks a tiny version of himself in a grimy room. Nolan dreamed it before he filmed it. Shot in black and white, it’s only three minutes, but it already plays with loops, paranoia, and identity.
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