Kinogeny
A motion library that grows itself
Its first part is a reel library: every reel you liked or saved on Instagram, with its video, caption, a sheet of frames and a transcript, all searchable. Each reel is sorted into a topic and a format, with a summary, the idea worth taking and its techniques.
- Works no.
- 014 of 31
- Status
- Not public yet
- Work began
- 29 Oct 2026
- Where
- Not public yet
- Made by
- Laurens van Riel, 42workspace, Rotterdam
In numbers
What is inside
- Import an Instagram export, or paste single links
- Search captions, transcripts, accounts and notes; filter by source, topic, format and sound
- Sound effects placed on a film’s cuts and checked by measurement, for a person to judge
How it is built
Python with SQLite full-text search, and a page with no build step. A worker fetches one reel at a time at a gentle pace, Whisper transcribes on the CPU, and the sorting runs on the ChatGPT plan, at most 300 reels a day.
Organogeny began from a reel kept in its library, and so did ogeny.app’s guided tour.