Chester Dent is a UCL alumnus who directed a student film adaptation of Borges's 'Funes the Memorious' that Nolan saw during his time at UCL, providing an early model of Borgesian narrative translated into cinema.
Dent's student film adaptation of Borges demonstrated to Nolan that the structural paradoxes of Borgesian fiction could be cinematically rendered, providing an early precedent for 'Memento'.
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