Doodlebug

Doodlebug (1997) is Christopher Nolan's three-minute student horror short — watch it online on iFILM. Jeremy Theobald is the only person on screen: a man crawling around his apartment, chasing something small and fast across the floor. The creature keeps moving. So does he.

In under three minutes Nolan sets up a loop that anticipates the fractured realities of his later work. What the man is hunting, and what is hunting him, turn out to be the same thing. Watch Doodlebug online on iFILM.