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“The story of a man who works in a copy shop & copies himself until he fills the whole world. An original copy film. A 2001, 35mm, b/1, 12 min, sound, no dialogue.
ABOUT COPY SHOP
“Copy Shop” shows a protagonist fighting for his originality as an individual. But in “Copy Shop” not even the frames are originals; they are only copies. This is done not only to express the fact that the cinema copy is the usual kind of copy for movie theatres, but also that the frames are really and truly “copies” in the literal sense of the word. The technical realization of “Copy Shop” involved the transfer of every single frame from the digital video tape into the computer once the shooting had been finished, from where the frames were printed out on a black and white laser printer and then filmed again with a 35mm animation camera. Thus video becomes paper, paper becomes film and the story of “Copy Shop” is brought to life again “copy by copy”.
The film “Copy Shop” actually consists of nearly 18,000 photocopied digital frames, which are animated & filmed with a 35mm camera.
SHORT FILM REVIEW
Copy Shop is truly novel in the way it is conceptualized & executed. “Copy Shop” was nominated for the 2001 oscar in the short film category. Read more about the story of “Copy Shop” & the making of it @ http://www.widrichfilm.com/copyshop/core_en.html
DIRECTOR
Virgil Widrich
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