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📌 Title
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Outside the Timeline: Seeing your Film through Spatial Grid and Visual Clustering
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📌 One-liner
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Step outside the editing timeline and see your film footage as a spatial grid of every frame and as clusters of visual similarity, surfacing patterns, rhythms, and obsessions you didn't know were there.
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📌 Credits
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Recipe by Artefacto, a Barcelona-based centre for research, production, and innovation in film and technology, driven by Anna Giralt Gris and Jorge Caballero.
| Difficulty | Intermediate |
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| Group size | Solo / Pairs / Group |
| Time | 45 mins - 90 mins |
| AI tools | Computer vision (Google Colab) |
| Tags | #computervision #editing #filmanalysis #patterns #spatialthinking |
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📦 What you'll make
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A spatial map of your video material, a visual grid and shot clustering generated by computer vision, plus a set of editorial observations and reflections on your own visual language as a maker.
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⏱️ Suggested timing
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For 45 mins: run the notebook with one video, spend most of the time on observation and reflection. For 90 mins: run the notebook, allow deeper annotation and group discussion. Note on the processing wait: the notebook takes 5-15 minutes per video to run. Either have participants run it on their own footage as homework beforehand, so everyone arrives with their grids ready, or (preferred) start the runs together at the top of the session and use the processing time for a short framing talk or discussion rather than watching the loading bar. In a group, working in pairs or small clusters around fewer machines also keeps it moving.
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🛒 Ingredients
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