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Garden Lumière

One hundred films, remembered as a living nocturnal garden.

Type
WebGL movie infographic
Collection
100 films from a personal archive

The garden

A personal archive becomes a place to wander.

Each of the 100 films appears once, as a flower, combining its metadata with my rating and the impression it left behind. There is no chart to read first. You walk in, and the patterns come later.

Recorded from the live garden.

One film

A close look reveals the information beneath the atmosphere.

Selecting a flower or a title in the index brings a film into focus. Its poster, director and genres sit beside two personal measures: the rating I gave it, and how deeply it stayed with me.

Keeping those separate lets a flower hold both an immediate judgement and a lasting impression. Mother! has a rating of 7 and an impact of 5.

Genre

Eight families. One visual language.

A film’s primary genre chooses its silhouette, so genres read at a glance across the garden: drama grows Blooms, horror grows Thorns, science fiction grows Stars. Secondary genres change the petal contours while the family stays recognisable.

One film, The Zone of Interest, moved through every family in the Flower Lab.
The eight botanical families side by side: Bloom, Bell, Thorn, Orchid, Lotus, Star, Iris and Wildflower.

The mappings

Each input has a job.

Change one input and only its trait moves, which turns the flower into something you can read as well as look at. Every clip below is the same film, with one control moving.

Source material sets the veins: original screenplays branch, manga adds angular panels, novels run parallel.
My rating sets the opening. Even a low rating produces a complete bloom.
Runtime sets the stem. A continuous curve compresses unusually long films.
IMDb votes set the size, on a bounded scale so widely seen films can’t overwhelm the garden.
Impact sets the roots and golden sparkles, independent of my rating.

Flower Lab

From input to effect.

The lab opens that translation up. Readers start with any film and experiment, with Whole, Petals and Roots views, rotation, zoom and vein highlighting for the small details. The garden and lab share the same geometry and mappings, and Find in garden takes you back to the film’s place in the collection. Try the Flower Lab.

The Flower Lab with The Zone of Interest selected: an ivory Bloom beside genre and source-material controls and its curated film palette.

Colour

A palette for each film.

Each film has a curated main petal colour, inner shade and pollen highlight. These are artistic choices, not extracted from the film or determined by its country. The Zone of Interest pairs ivory with pale sage and warm gold.

The data

Nothing hidden behind the flowers.

The searchable archive connects 21 stored fields to 17 derived traits, and you can switch between the two. IMDb vote counts use a verified dataset snapshot from 8 September 2026; other fields keep their own provenance notes. Film identity adds repeatable variation, while sway and lighting create the atmosphere.

The project

Find a film. Follow its flower.

Wander through the full collection, or explore how one film becomes a flower.

Open Garden Lumière Open the Flower Lab