Copy Shop

Peculiar irregularities such as dog ears on the edges of images and streaks arouse the suspicion that the content of Virgil Widrich’s Copy Shop is not quite able to master the form. Misleading conventions dominate at first: A man, Alfred Kager, wakes up, arranges his hair and goes out into the street on his normal way to work. After he arrives, he xeroxes his hand (and his identity) and the world goes to pieces.
The man continues to make copies of the film frames—first one Doppelgänger appears, and then an infinite number are produced. The first few scenes are sufficient...

Orig. Title
Copy Shop
Year
2001
Country
Austria
Duration
12 min
Director
Virgil Widrich
Category
Fiction
Orig. Language
No Dialogue
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