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 Copy shop

Director:   Virgil Widrich  (their other films)
Producer:	Genre:  Animation
Country:  Austria	Copyright Year:  2001
Original Format:	Color Type:  B&W
Sound Type:	Length:  00:12:00
Original Language:	Subtitle Language:
Label:   Cinema 16/Vital

This film has never been screened

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Compilations containing this film
	Commercial DVD Cinema 16: European Short Films (MC-739) 2-Disc Edition	2007	Not currently available through Microcinema International