A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Original Title:
The Quality of Image
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 6
"The Quality of Image" is an participatory art project that draws inspiration from Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to explore and analyze the markers of modern society's quality of life. Focused on both the quantity and quality of individual needs and their fulfillment, the project aims to delve into the subjective and objective aspects of life indicators and standards of living. Through a process of deconstruction and dismantling, indicators will reconstruct the image of quality of life in Athens. Every individual will create operational images, in order to transform a data (percentage) into image, the data which was created by the European Commision on the Quality of Life report in 2023.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.