A man learned to play movies using Excel spreadsheets

Dutch artist Jeroen van der Most has created a program that plays movie clips inside Excel files. It changes the cell colors in real time.

You can watch movies inside Excel spreadsheets. Dutch artist Jeroen van der Most demonstrated this with his installation at a museum in Tallinn. Using vibecoding, he created a program that plays movie clips inside Excel files. To do this, the system changes the cell colors in real time.

In this way, Jeroen van der Most wanted to depict a future where technology doesn't control art, but rather enhances natural creativity.