The Atlas

3000 open-source & public-domain films

Nearly 3,000 open-source and public-domain films await on the platform. Explore the works by searching for patterns in the matter, navigate their latent space through the algorithmic gaze, watch the films and build your own collection of favourite shots.

Research Laboratory

Digital film history & AI tools

Our laboratory conducts research in digital film history (cinema and the digital humanities) and designs AI tools and research interfaces in collaboration with laboratories and researchers from a range of disciplines. Our work spans cultural analytics, art history, literature, musicology, neuroscience, anthropology and media archaeology. Find our projects and those of our collaborators below.

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Fig. 01 — Mnemosyne Atlas, 1929

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The Eisenstein Table

Eisenstein dreamed of a calculable editing system, capable of producing measurable effects on the viewer. This experiment puts his theories to the test: each shot of his filmography is paired with its closest semantic twin, found among nearly one million public domain scenes using CLIP embeddings.

Date

Event

17.05.26

Computational Opticography: The Film as a Visual Writing of Movement in Time

conference

Temporalities of AI — Machine Visual Culture research group

Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute), Rome, Italy

09.05.26

Filmatters: Film as an Interface Between Human Thought and Algorithmic Perception

conference

Artificiality | Surfaciality — International conference on AI, aesthetics, and the humanities

Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA / AMU, Aix-Marseille University, France

27.03.26

Arts Pull / Techno Push

study day

Journée d'étude IA & Recherche-Création — Le Cube Garges × EUR ArTeC, EnsadLab – SACRe (PSL), Institut ACTE, ESAD Orléans, Sorbonne Université

Le Cube, Garges-lès-Gonesse, France

30.01.26

Tools Created, Tools Subverted: Epistemological and Sociotechnical Approaches to Contemporary Analytical Tools

seminar

ANR Numalyse — Analyzing cinematographic and audiovisual works in a digital context

Online

17.10.25

Filmatters: Understanding Artificial Intelligence Through Cinema

study day

Study Day of Observatoire de l'IA — AI, Arts and Media: Cross-Critical Approaches (France–Quebec)

Maison de la recherche, Paris

25.04.25

Artificial Intelligence and Dialectical Montage: A Computational Approach to Eisenstein's Montage of Attractions Theory

conference

CUT/GENERATE: Montage and AI — Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (IRCAV, LIRA, IUF, La Fémis)

Maison de la recherche, Paris

The Playtime

Explore cinema with AI, understand AI through cinema

Through our interfaces and workshops, easily create your own films with minimal equipment. Depending on your wishes or your educational goals, you can also add a module introducing and raising awareness about artificial intelligence. Led by a Filmatters facilitator or by a member of your own team, our workshops are open to all audiences, with no age limit, and can be offered in any language.

Discover cinema by making films!

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