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

A man who pick-pockets people gets chased through the woods by the people he's trying to steal from.

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]

Release

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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kuo, Christopher (7 March 2024). "The Film Christopher Nolan Doesn't Want You to Watch" . Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  2. ↑ Mooney, Darren (2018). Christopher Nolan: A Critical Study of the Films. McFarland & Company. p. 5. ISBN   978-14-766-7480-3.
  3. ↑ "Christopher Nolan: The Movies. The Memories". Empire . No. 253. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
  4. 1 2 "UCLU Film Society, London". University College London. Archived from the original on 10 August 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
  5. ↑ Gaughan, Liam (22 August 2023). "The Early Christopher Nolan Film That No One Will Ever See". Collider . Retrieved 11 March 2024.


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