Inspired by experimentation with Infinite Video at the School for Poetic Computation last year, I’ve been playing with different ways of using code to recompose clips from a folder of video.

In this spirit I’ve prototyped vclip - a small command-line tool to compile randomly selected second-long video clips from a folder of videos. 🎞️✂️

You can find links to documentation, details and code here.

Here’s an example composed of 100 second-long clips from a video folder from 2023: