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Welcome, we are happy to introduce you to Filmatters!
Filmatters was created by cinema lovers. It is an online open film library, but also a filmic material exploration engine. Here, you can search at the shot level, manipulate images, and create links between works as Aby Warburg did in the 1920s.
Filmatters aims to be a place for discovering and promoting the cinematic heritage of humanity.
This is an ongoing development initiative. To stay informed about additions to the catalog and the latest features, leave us your email:
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If you want to help us enrich the catalog, if you are interested in an internal use of our engine, or simply to discuss, send us a message!
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Filmatters

The open atlas of filmic matter.

- Filmatters is an atlas of filmic matter
designed to explore cinema in its fundamental form.
It consists of three engines:
An exploration engine
Which offers you to navigate through the world of cinema
and to explore the matter in its finest details.
An experimentation engine
To manipulate the image and to appropriate its language.
A reflection engine
To learn and think about cinema.
Knowledge transmitted by researchers, artists, and cinephiles.
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An indexing system based on cinematographic grammar.

For this project, we started with the semantics specific to cinema to develop our indexing process. Designed through artificial intelligence, this morphological analysis of the moving image captures both aesthetic elements (such as colors, shot scales, elements within the frame), and technical (formats and cinematographic processes) and contextual elements.

So far, we have indexed the frames of 0 movies, split into 0 scenes, now making it possible to search at the level of detail within works with an unprecedented level of detail.

A spatialization of filmic matter.

The exploration engine, designed through this indexing, proposes a specific form of organization and visualization of cinematographic and iconological knowledge. It acts as a spatialization of the filmic matter following « the law of good neighborhood », a system of arrangement that favors encounter and serendipity.

This exploration tool allows you to navigate an ocean of images, discover new territories, and establish correspondences between works. Conceptualized by Aby Warburg, these « pathos formulas » (Pathosformel) cross epochs and cultures, conveying deep emotional states.

L'Atlas Mnémosyne dans la bibliothèque d'Aby Warburg ©Getty - Heritage Images

The Exploration Engine

The itineraries that the exploration engine makes possible are as vast as they are precise. For example, you can ask it for all the food plans in movies released between 1920 to 1940 or all the close-up scenes where two people kiss; a selection of representations of fire in Technicolor works or all the scenes where protagonists talk about politics.

Filmatters sets itself two main goals: to highlight the cinematographic heritage and to foster the emergence of discoveries and reflections around images.

Filmatters

The open atlas of filmic matter.

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If you are interested in an internal use of our engine, or just to chat, send us a message!