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Copy Shop

2001 · 12 min

A hypnotic, wordless black-and-white experiment that feels like a waking dream, unsettling and playful as it multiplies its hero into an eerie crowd.

Overview
Wordless story about a man who awakes in his bed wearing his clothes (including a check vest). He rises, washes his face, combs his hair, and heads for work across the street at a copy shop. He inadvertently makes a photocopy of his hand, and then the machine beings turning out copies of photographs of himself, the street outside, and his apartment. He unplugs the copier and heads home. He repeats the scene we saw earlier. Copies of himself emerge from bed; baffled, he watches them go to work. Soon, it seems, he's part of a society in which everyone looks like him and wears check vest. Can he get things back to normal?

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How it feels

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • isolation
  • madness
  • technology
  • survival
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • animated
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour4
Realism3
Romance0
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy, animation
Directed by
Virgil Widrich
Written by
Virgil Widrich
Starring
Johannes Silberschneider, Elisabeth Ebner-Haid
Runtime
12 min
Country
Austria
Languages
No Language

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