FrameThrower · Actors · Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini
2 films · 124 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1972–1975
Born 5 March 1922 · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · died 2 November 1975
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility, becoming a highly controversial figure in the process.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 124 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1972–1975
- Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix
- Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival1964
- Golden Bear1972
- Silver Bear1971
- Jussi Awards1968
- Crotone Prize1959
- Best Screenplay Award1958
- Viareggio Prize1957
- Kinema Junpo
- Sant Jordi Prize
- Nastro d'Argento for Best Subject
- Nastro d'Argento for the director of the best film
How their films are shot
Measured across 124 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Pier takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 66% of their frames are day, 61% natural — the look of the work Pier takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
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 124 frames from Pier Paolo Pasolini's 2 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.