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Christopher Nolan’s Micro-Budget Short Films: Doodlebug

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In our ongoing series of spotlighting famous director’s first micro-budget outings, we present Christopher Nolan’s Doodlebug. Doodlebug was shot in 1997 and created the film during his university days using 16mm film.

This psychological short-film has gained a cult following, especially given the heights which Christopher Nolan’s now climbed since making it. The film concerns a grungy man, in a filthy apartment. He is anxious and paranoid, trying to kill a small bug-like creature that is scurrying on the floor. It is revealed that the bug resembles a miniature version of himself.

He squashes the bug with his shoe. However, every movement the “doodlebug” makes is later matched by the man himself, and he is later squashed by a larger version of himself.

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David Fincher’s: Honda Del Sol Commercial

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Fincher’s final spot during this period was for Honda, which parodied the style of James Bond as a secret agent tries to outrace a particularly aggressive helicopter that is pursuing him. With the dynamic camerawork and plentiful helicopter POV aerials, the spot is less James Bond than it is Michael Bay. It also doesn’t really look like Fincher’s handiwork, what with a heavy orange and black color scheme instead of his trademark cold palette.

After the disaster that was ALIEN 3’s production, Fincher publicly stated that he would rather die of cancer than ever make another feature. However, his success in returning to the medium that made him famous served as a refreshing boost of confidence, recharging him to make another run at movies once again and give him the proper launchpad for takeoff.

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Taika Waititi’s Short Film: Falling Leaves

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A part of 48Hours competition: Best of the Rest.

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Zack Snyder’s Short Film: Michael Jordan’s Playground

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This made-for-video production mixes highlights of Michael Jordan from the ’80s with a fantasy storyline of a high school teen named Walt, who has been cut from his basketball team. Doubting his abilities, Walt gets some lessons from Michael Jordan himself, on the magical Playground known as Michael Jordan’s Playground.

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Gareth Edward’s Short Film: Factory Farmed

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Gareth Edwards created this project in a 48 hour film festival. He did all of the post work himself and ended up winning the festival. He presented the short in a pitch to Vertigo films to secure financing for Monsters.

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David Lynch’s Short Film: Lady Blue Shanghai

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Lady Blue Shanghai is a 16-minute Internet promotion short film for Dior written, directed and edited by David Lynch. It stars Marion Cotillard, Gong Tao, Emily Stofle, Cheng Hong, Lu Yong and Nie Fei, with music by Lynch, Dean Hurley, and Nathaniel Shilkret.

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Denis Villeneuve’s Short Film: Next Floor

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Next Floor is a 2008 Canadian short drama film, directed by Denis Villeneuve. The film, largely wordless, depicts a group of eleven people endlessly gorging themselves on food at a banquet. During an opulent and luxurious banquet, complete with cavalier servers and valets, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic gastronomic carnage. In this absurd and grotesque universe, an unexpected sequence of events.

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David Fincher’s Short Film: Downtown

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Calvin Klein: Downtown: Directed by David Fincher. With Rooney Mara. Black and white promotional video of the new female fragrance Calvin Klein.

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Taika Waititi’s Short Film: Heinous Crime

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Two players, one heinous crime to be revealed. The winner of 48Hours competition: Controversy loomed in Wellywood, when Oscar Winner & chess player Taika Waititi and his partner in crime, Loren Horsley took top honors with the brilliantly silly and subversive HEINOUS CRIME.

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Taika Waititi’s Short Film: Slade in Full

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48Hours Furious Film Making entry from 2006 by “Tyler Corgan” Team White Tiger Selected by Peter Jackson as a Wild-card entry.

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