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Obscure video aggregators, unindexed uploads and search engines pointed at film dialogue. What you find when nobody is optimising for you.
12 sites
Streams clips uploaded straight from phones with default filenames and no audience, drifting past like a broadcast from nobody.
Thousands of educational films saved from the skip — driver safety, dating advice, duck and cover — digitised by one collector.
The animator who taught the internet to be afraid of cows, with every looping nightmare he has made collected in one place.
Found VHS footage cut into collages by a collective that also owns most of the world's remaining copies of Jerry Maguire.
Home-video horrors rescued from charity shops and skips, curated by two men with an unhealthy commitment to the format.
Canada put its entire animation and documentary archive online for free, and some of it is the strangest work any government ever funded.
Plays YouTube videos with almost no views, which turn out to be mostly a stranger's kitchen and a camera left running.
Type a phrase and watch every film clip in which somebody says it, cut back to back until the words stop meaning anything.
Editorially curated short films, each with a proper write-up explaining why it was chosen, which is why the hit rate stays high.
Vast unofficial archive of avant-garde film, sound and writing, run on no budget whatsoever and hosted like it is still 1998.
Home-taped VHS uploaded wholesale to the Internet Archive, adverts, tracking lines and accidental recordings included.
Two decades of hand-picked short films, still the most reliable place online to find something beautiful in nine minutes.
Every entry in Detour is hand-sorted rather than scraped: filed under one category, given one to three moods, and placed in a time band for how quickly it pays off. The practical facts — cost, sign-up, sound, device and whether it is safe at a desk — are recorded per site and shown on every card, so you can rule things out before you click.
12 sites, each hand-sorted by category, mood and how long it takes to pay off.
12 of the 12 are free and need no account. None of them are paid.
8 of 12 work on a phone; the rest are desktop only. 12 are safe for work and 0 work with the sound off.
One button, one detour. Press it as often as you like.