Copy Shop (2001)

Director:

Virgil Widrich

Writer:

Virgil Widrich (writer)

Genre:

Drama | Short | Comedy

Plot:

Wordless story about a man who awakes in his bed wearing his clothes (including a check vest). He rises...

Plot Keywords:

Human Duplication | Photocopy | Repeated Event | Surreal | Time Loop

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 28 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Johannes Silberschneider	...	Alfred Kager
Elisabeth Ebner-Haid	...	Flower girl

Directed by
Virgil Widrich

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Virgil Widrich		writer

Produced by
Peter Janecek	....	associate producer
Constanze Schumann	....	assistant producer
Virgil Widrich	....	producer

Original Music by
Alexander Zlamal

Cinematography by
Martin Putz

Film Editing by
Virgil Widrich

Art Direction by
Joachim Luetke

Makeup Department
Michaela Maier	....	makeup artist
Petra Meißl	....	makeup artist
Martha Ruess	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Gabriele Kranzelbinder	....	production manager

Art Department
Gerald Anetzhuber	....	construction assistant
Georg Wagner	....	construction assistant

Sound Department
Johannes Eibensteiner	....	sound assistant
Alexander Zlamal	....	sound

Special Effects by
Ronald Anzenberger	....	special effects
Markus Gasser	....	special effects
Regine Müller	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Joachim Luetke	....	matte effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Volkmar Geiblinger	....	second cinematographer
Matthias Greuling	....	still photographer
Thomas Kienast	....	gaffer
Leena Koppe	....	gaffer
Martin Putz	....	camera operator

Music Department
Edda Breit	....	musician: cello
Margarete Bruckner	....	musician: viola
Amora DeSwart	....	musician: violin
Katharina Gottfried	....	musician: cello
Veronika Gottfried	....	musician: violin
Gerswind Olthoff	....	musician: viola

Production Companies

• Virgil Widrich Filmproduktion

Distributors

• Living Colour Entertainment (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Self Distribuzione (2006) (Italy) (DVD) (boxed set)
• Sixpack Film (2003) (worldwide)

Other Companies

• BKA-Kunstsektion Wien  funding
• Land Salzburg  funding
• Stadt Wien  funding
• Tonstudio Klaus Kobald  sound post-production
• Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)  funding

Runtime:

12 min

Country:

Austria

Language:

None

Color:

Black and White

Certification:

Argentina:Unrated | Germany:o.Al.

Company:

Virgil Widrich Filmproduktion

Trivia:

The movie was shoot with a digital video camera. After filming, all images had been manipulated in the computer, printed with a regular laser printer (about 18,000 single pages) and then filmed with a 35mm film camera.

One of the best short movies ever! A very clever idea!

I've never seen any Austrian movie before and I would have thanked God to have made me tape this short movie if I believed in God!!! This is an excellent experimental movie which develops a very interesting idea and clever new technics which consist in animating photocopies of pictures. Moreover Virgil Widrich wrote the right story to stick with the technics. And the result is amazing: the aesthetics are very good and the special effects well-done. But it's not all: Zlamal's music is very moving and Johannes Silberschneider performs his several roles with majesty! At the end I felt very strange and wondered a lot of things but above all I thought about problems of cloning humans! Generally I thought about the dangers of homogeneity: can we become all fools?... But I won't tell you more because suspense is so important in cinema!