FrameThrower · Actors · Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda
5 films · 236 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1976–2017
Born 30 May 1928 · Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium · died 29 March 2019
Agnès Varda was a Belgian-born French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her films, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 236 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1976–2017
- Honorary Palme d'Or2015
- Golden Lion1985
- César Award for Best Documentary Film2009
- César Award for Best Documentary Short Film1984
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour2017
- Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit2013
- Commander of the Legion of Honour2009
- Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit2007
- L'Œil d'or2017
- Donostia Award2017
- Academy Honorary Award2017
- Max Beckmann prize2016
How their films are shot
Measured across 236 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Agnès takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 88% of their frames are day, 81% natural — the look of the work Agnès takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 236 frames from Agnès Varda's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.