Copy shop
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Copy shop |
| Country of production | Austria |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 12 minutes |
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| Director | Virgil Widrich |
| script | Virgil Widrich |
| production | Virgil Widrich |
| music | Alexander Zlamal |
| camera | Martin Putz |
| cut | Virgil Widrich |
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Copy Shop is an Austrian short film by Virgil Widrich from 2001.
action
Alfred Kager wakes up, washes himself and goes to his copy shop , where he makes copies. He accidentally copies his hand. The copier now makes copies of different scenes in Alfred's morning and he pulls the plug of the copier in horror. The next morning he wakes up, but in the bathroom he hears the alarm clock ringing again. He hides from his second self, who comes into the bathroom. Alfred goes to the copy shop and sees from the inside how a man who is identical to him is watching him through the window pane. The man disappears when Alfred tears up a copy that shows the other man in front of the shop window. Shortly afterwards, the copier makes copies of actions that have not yet taken place, but which Alfred subsequently carries out.
Alfred goes home. Through the keyhole he sees a copy of himself lying in his bed and surprises more copies in the bathroom and in front of the door, especially since the clones waking up in bed are also increasing in number. Soon the street is populated with copies and numerous Alfred identical men stand in the copy shop and copy their hands, among other things. Alfred unplugged the copier and ran away with the toner cartridges in his arm. He is chased by his copies and eventually climbs a chimney. Below him he sees an unmanageable mass of Alfred copies. He plunges himself into the depths; on impact, it sounds like paper is tearing.
production
Copy Shop was realized as a film without dialogues in black and white. The scenes were first filmed with a digital video camera and then each individual image was processed on the computer. The frames processed in this way were printed out in black and white and then filmed with an animation camera. The film consists of a total of 18,000 individual images. The film structures come from Joachim Luetke . Copy Shop ran at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2001 and received around 200 festival invitations , including for the Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy , the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival , the Dresden Film Festival and the Palm Springs International Film Festival .
Awards
Copy Shop has won more than 30 international film awards. At the Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand the film received the award for the best film music, won the Cracow Students Jury Award at the Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy and was awarded an ear of gold for the best short film at the Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid excellent. The minimalist string music by Alexander Zlamal was awarded the prize for the best film music at the International Short Film Festival in Clermand-Ferand.
In 2002 the film was nominated for an Oscar in the category of best short film and for a European film award for best short film.
Web links
- Copy Shop in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Information about the film on widrichfilm.com (doc)