Press Reviews

The best of the lot by far is "Copy Shop", an ingenious, visually stunning experimental film about a guy who works in a copy shop - or is that identical guys who work in a copy shop? Smart, well acted, at times mind-blowing to look at, "Copy Shop" at once uses and comments on contemporary technology so lyrically that it recalls the most poetic films of the silent era.
Washington Post, 16.03.2002

And the Academy Award winner for the best live action short is.. not revealed until March 24. But thanks to the internet, before placing your bets, you can check out hot Oscar nominations like the surreal Lynchian effort from Viennese director Virgil Widrich.
Guardian, 15.03.2002

For me, the highlight of the live-action films is Austrian director Virgil Widrich's wildly inventive, 12-minute "Copy Shop", a Kafkaesque fantasy about a lonely guy who photocopies his hand one day at work and soon starts finding replicas of himself everywhere.
"Copy Shop", a grainy, scratched black-and-white film that looks as though it's about to pop out of its sprockets, plays like an escape nightmare from a Xerox repairman, and is one of the most interesting films I've seen in years.
New York Daily News Online, 14.03.2002

It was a tremendous hit. The audience was overwhelmed.
Museum of Modern Art, 13.06.2001

Probably the single most startling new discovery of the first few days was 12-minutes short by young Austrian director Virgil Widrich (...) The film consists of 18.000 photocopied frames, making it neither strictly live action nor animation, and the blurry black-and-white makes it look like a lost Murnau film.
Guardian, 03.02.2001

An intelligent and grotesque metaphor about the routine of everyday life and the longing for individuality.
Jury of the International Short Film Festival Hamburg

A scurrile infinite loop, which is about to devour the world.
Blimp, March 2001

Wit and obsession meet each other during those fifteen minutes of masterly madness.
Salzburger Nachrichten, 03.01.2001

An innovative piece of work.
Kurier, 23.03.2001

Copy Shop is one of the most powerful short films I've ever seen all year and I highly recommend you check it out.
Film & Art, 08.02.2001