Director: Virgil Widrich
AU/2001/12mins/35mm/b&w
COPY SHOP is an ingenious, visually stunning
experimental film about a man who works in a copy
shop and copies himself until he fills the whole
world. The film actually consists of nearly 18,000
photocopied digital frames, which are animated
and filmed with a 35mm camera.
Written, produced, edited and directed by
Austria’s Virgil Widrich, COPY SHOP uses and
comments on contemporary technology so lyrically
that it recalls the most poetic films of the silent era.
Aside from an Oscar nomination COPY SHOP was a
huge hit at festivals around the world, playing at 133
festivals and receiving over 30 international awards.
"Copy Shop was made with printed out
paper - the whole film was animated like
a flip book. Every film was filmed with a
digital video camera then printed
out and reanimated. We did this to save
shooting on 35mm or 16mm and it
turned out to be a nice way to make the
film look the way it does."
Virgil Widrich on Copyshop
Commentary by Virgil Widrich, recorded in Vienna, Austria
Film courtesy of Virgil Widrich Film-und Multimediaproduktions
G.m.b.H.
