Two short films by Virgil Widrich

Virgil Widrich is an Austrian film-maker with a very inventive approach to the materials of cinema. There’s some crossover in the two films here with animation, although I don’t think Widrich would consider himself an animator as such. The technique is one of many he draws upon. Copy Shop (2001) is a simple scenario in which a man who works at an establishment named “Copy Shop” ends up populating his world with copies of himself as a result of some magical action (or malfunction) of his photocopying machine. In a self-reflexive twist, the entire film has been made with photocopies, although all the action was shot initially with a digital camera. Every frame of the edited material was printed out, photocopied and shot again as a succession of stills on copier paper, some of which are subject to tears or the various misprintings you get with cheap copies. Fast Film (2003) expands on the copying idea which it applies to Hollywood’s history and cinematic modes. This is one of those films…

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