FrameThrower · Actors · Tristan Risk
Tristan Risk
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2012–2014
Born 2 November 1980 · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Corsetier, chocolatier, baker, ta-ta shaker, hip swayer, tight lacer, troublemaker, red lipstick, magic tricks, swizzle sticks, voodoo kicks, and a urban myth. Tristan Risk aka Little Miss Risk, has been a burlesque/sideshow/fetish performance artist for over ten years, touring North America and Europe with her heathen charms. Recently, she has made the move into genre film including her breakout role in the Soska sisters film, "American Mary" as surgically altered stripper Beatress. She continues to work with directors of a like mind to create strange genre films as well as performing live, teasing audiences from both stage and screen.
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Tristan 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, 84% of their frames are night, 77% low key — the look of the work Tristan takes.
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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 130 frames from Tristan Risk'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.