Larceny (1996 film)

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Larceny
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Written byChristopher Nolan
Produced byIvan Cornell
Christopher Nolan
StarringMark Deighton
Dave Savva
Jeremy Theobald
CinematographyChristopher Nolan
Edited byChristopher Nolan
Music by David Julyan
Production
company
UCL Film Society
Distributed byBloomsbury Films
Release date
  • July 1996 (1996-07)(UK)
Running time
8–9 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Larceny is an unreleased 1996 short film written, directed, and edited by Christopher Nolan. The film is a little over eight minutes long and involves an apartment burglary. [1]

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Plot

Cast

Production

Nolan shot the film over a weekend in black and white with limited equipment and a small cast and crew. [2] [3] It was funded by Nolan and shot with equipment, specifically with 16-millimeter cameras, from the film society of the students' union of University College London (UCL). [4] The society describes the film as "one of the best (if not the best) shorts of filmsec recent generations". [4]

It was screened at the Cambridge Film Festival in 1996 but has not been made public since. [1] [5] David Julyan, who made the music for the film, said in 2024 that he had a VHS copy of it. [1]

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