Copy City
An experimental exploration of everyday life and marginal worlds, Copy City blends real and virtual spaces through video, frame-by-frame prints, the use of a copy machine, and a mix of analogue and digital animation techniques. Created as my Master’s Graduation Film at the Royal College of Art (2008), it earned a nomination for the Conran Award and screened at over 50 international festivals - including the London International Animation Festival, Hiroshima, Anima Mundi, and Onedotzero Zurich - and won the Synchro Film & Material Prize at Vienna’s Tricky Women Festival.
CREDITS
Producer: Royal College of Art
Writter & Director: Denise Hauser
Director of Photography: Claudio Rietti
Edit, Animation & Effects: Denise Hauser
Voice Over: Nick Jesper
Cast: Julia Reimann
Sound Design and Mix: Henning Knöpfel
Title & Credits: Bryan Loke
Special Thanks: Emelia Carrere, Stian Ward Bugten
Best of Les E-magiciens, France
Special Mention at Oslo Screen Festival - Norway
Nominated for the Conran Award, Royal College of Art - London
Winner: Synchro Film & Material prize Tricky Women Festival, Vienna
SCREENINGS
2008
The Show 2008 (Royal College of Art, London)
YCN LIVE (Bloomberg offices, London)
London International Animation Festival
Black Nights Film Festival (Tallinn, Estonia)
E-magiciens Festival (France)
Anilogue Budapest
2009
International Short Film Festival Leuven (Belgium)
Britspotting (Berlin, Germany)
L’Alternativa (Barcelona)
Cultural Sundays (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Onedotzero.ch (Zurich, Switzerland)
Ourense International Film Festival (Spain)
Anim’Est Bucharest (Romania)
Kyoto Cross Media Conference (Japan)
In Vervoering (Netherlands)
Axis Festival (Netherlands)
Netherlands Film Festival (Utrecht)
London International Animation Festival (UK)
Anima Mundi (Brazil)
Melbourne International Animation Festival (Australia)
Animayo – Summit, Conference and International Film Festival of Animation (Spain)
Nation of Shopkeepers (Leeds, UK)
China International Cartoon & Animation Festival (Hangzhou)
Riverrun International Film Festival (USA)
Black & White Audiovisual Festival (Porto)
European Independent Film Festival (Paris)
Monstra Festival 2009 (Lisbon)
Birds Eye View Film Festival (London, UK)
Cinéma Le Festival (Bègles, France)
Tricky Women Festival (Vienna)
Contemporary art museum KUMU (Tallinn, Estonia)
Estonian Academy of Arts (Tallinn, Estonia)
International Festival of Animated Objects (Calgary, Canada)
2010
Delhi International Arts Festival (India)
Örebro Video Art Festival (Sweden)
International Video and Contemporary Art Festival Waterpieces (Riga, Latvia)
Hiroshima International Animation Festival (Japan)
Festival International de Film et Video de Creation (Beirut, Lebanon)
International Women's Film Festival (Seoul, Korea)
Oslo Screen Festival (Norway)
Minimalen Short Film Festival (Trondheim, Norway)
2011
Magmart Festival (Napoli, Italy)
Festival Miden (Kalamata, Greece)