The story of your movie life
You remember far more than you think.
You just haven't been asked properly.
Pull one thread
- Say a name — whoever took you
- Or the room: a theater that isn't there anymore, somebody's basement, the back of a car
- Or just a stretch of time — the summer you were twelve, the year you had a newborn and saw nothing
and the rest starts to unspool
Not the films — the evenings. Who drove. What your grandfather said on the way home. Which one you weren't old enough to get into, and got into anyway. You will be surprised how much comes flooding back once something has hold of the thread.
Nobody ever watched a film in a vacuum. The experience and the picture are not separable things, and it turns out the picture is very good at holding on to the experience.
What unspools is the story of your life on a different axis — the same years you already lived, told through what you were watching and who you were watching it with.
Moviography is where you put them back together.
The difference
Every other film site asks
“What did you think of this movie?”
Moviography asks
“What place does this movie hold in your life?”
Nobody remembers I watched Apollo 13. They remember my grandpa thought it was too loud and waited in the lobby. Those are the ones worth keeping, and until now there was nowhere to put them.
What it does
It keeps the parts you're unsure of — “summer 1995” stays summer 1995, and “the one with the dog at the drive-in” is a real entry. It keeps every account when they disagree, including your mother's. It can always tell you where a fact came from. And it notices what's missing and asks.
What it is not
No feed. No followers. No comments, stars, streaks, or badges. Nothing to perform and no algorithm to please.
Nobody sees anything you don't want them to — everything is private by default, and you choose what's publicly viewable. Share a whole archive, a single memory, or just the fact that you saw something without saying a word about it.
It also won't tell you what to watch next. There are eleven thousand websites for that.