Copy Shop

Directed by Virgil Widrich · Starring Johannes Silberschneider, Elisabeth Ebner-Haid · 2001

A copy shop clerk accidentally duplicates himself, setting off an ever-multiplying chain of copies that soon spirals beyond his control.

An Oscar-nominated tour de force animated from 18,000 photocopies, as inventive in form as it is unsettling in idea.

An Oscar-nominated film about a copy shop clerk who accidentally duplicates himself and sets off a chain reaction of unintended consequences—filmed from 18,000 photocopied frames.

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