Spiderweb (1976)
- Country
- United Kingdom
How it feels
A detective investigates a series of murders that seem to follow a complex geometric pattern. The story unfolds in a fictional city and is based on a Jorge Luis Borges short story about logic and fate.
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What happens
Spiderweb (1976) is a British short film directed by National Film and Television School graduate Paul Miller. It is a fairly faithful adaptation of "Death and the Compass", a 1942 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). The site of the action, an unnamed city in the original story, is given as "Borgesia" at the beginning of the film. Spiderweb is available as an "Extra" on the DVD of Alex Cox's 1996 Death and the Compass, a later adaptation of the same short-story. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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