About Movie Barcodes
A different way to see a film.
Your favorite movies compressed into one beautiful image.
A film, from first frame to last
Movie Barcodes samples a frame from every second of a film, calculates its average color, then lines those colors up in a single strip. The result is a complete movie reduced to its changing light, palette, and rhythm.
It is a small way to revisit a film you love, or to find one you have not seen yet. Browse the archive, search by title, or follow the colors to something unexpected.
Movie Barcodes is an independent visual archive created by Trevor Healy.