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Jim Hosking

Jim Hosking

Film director · 2 films (2016–2018)

Jim Hosking is a director whose work here spans The Greasy Strangler (2016) to An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn (2018), across comedy and horror. The work runs low-key — 59% of frames across the 2 films indexed here, against 40% library-wide. All 110 frames from 2 films are indexed here, searchable by lighting, lens, shot size, colour and mood.

Directing style

Jim Hosking constructs a tense, ominous, and lonely visual world by staging his characters in interior night scenes, relying on medium and wide compositions captured almost exclusively from a direct, eye-level perspective. Lighting is dominated by practical fixtures, often supplemented by window light or the sun, which illuminates a split approach to depth of field that shifts between isolating characters in shallow focus and placing them in deep space. His color palette is anchored by cool, desaturated tones, deep browns, and dark teals, punctuated by sharp accents of crimson and mustard yellow.

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Films directed by Jim Hosking

About Jim Hosking

What films has Jim Hosking directed?

FrameThrower holds stills from 2 of them: The Greasy Strangler (2016) and An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn (2018).

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All 110 indexed frames from 2 films directed by Jim Hosking — searchable by lighting, lens, shot size, mood or plain language.