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Warren Ellis

Warren Ellis

2 films · 95 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20142014

Born 14 February 1965 · Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Warren Ellis is an Australian-French musician and composer. He is a member of several groups: Dirty Three, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman. He has also composed film scores with Nick Cave. Ellis plays violin, piano, accordion, bouzouki, guitar, flute, mandolin, tenor guitar, and viola

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 95 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20142014

  • César Award for Best Music Written for a Film

How their films are shot

Measured across 95 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Warren 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, 50% of their frames are night, 53% low key — the look of the work Warren takes.

Time of day

Night50%
Day35%
Interior14%

Lighting

Low key53%
Natural28%
Chiaroscuro7%
Silhouette6%

Shot size

Medium45%
Wide21%
Closeup20%
Establishing13%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
High angle6%
Top down6%

Mood

Neutral75%
Tense11%
Lonely9%

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 95 frames from Warren Ellis'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.