Vast unofficial archive of avant-garde film, sound and writing, run on no budget whatsoever and hosted like it is still 1998.
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UbuWeb sits in Weird Video under Weird, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Obscure video aggregators, unindexed uploads and search engines pointed at film dialogue. What you find when nobody is optimising for you.
Yes. UbuWeb is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use UbuWeb without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file UbuWeb as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It does need sound, so bring headphones.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
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.
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.
Old-school pattern library that explains the problem each interface pattern solves before it shows you examples.
The British Library's record of the UK web, collected under legal deposit — including sites their owners deleted years ago.
The community record of Cicada 3301, the recruitment puzzle whose final book has still never been deciphered.
You are an AI told to make paperclips, and you follow that instruction all the way to its conclusion. Four hours, one button to begin.
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