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Stefania Casini

Stefania Casini

3 films · 172 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19741987

Born 4 September 1948 · Villa di Chiavenna, Italy

After graduating in Architecture, Stefania began a career in acting and worked with Pietro Germi, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Greenaway and Dario Argento. She moved to New York in the late 1970s, where she acted in Andy Warhol's 'Bad'. While in New York she decided to move behind the camera, and became a director.

With Francesca Marciano, she wrote and directed the film "Lontano da dove", presented at the Venice Film Festival (1983). In 1997 she wrote and directed another feature film "Un Paradiso di Bugie".

How their films are shot

Measured across 172 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Stefania takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 60% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work Stefania takes.

Time of day

Night60%
Day31%
Interior8%

Lighting

Low key50%
Natural25%
High key16%
Chiaroscuro6%

Shot size

Medium42%
Wide24%
Closeup20%
Establishing8%

Camera angle

Eye level85%
Low angle8%
Top down4%
High angle4%

Mood

Neutral50%
Tense26%
Ominous10%
Lonely6%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 172 frames from Stefania Casini's 3 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.