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The African Desperate (2022)

Directed by Martine Syms · Cinematography by Daisy Zhou

97 min133 frames

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What is The African Desperate about?

It’s MFA grad Palace Bryant’s final 24 hours in art school, and she is not going to the graduation party! She needs to get back home to Chicago from Upstate New York, but that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.

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What does the cinematography of The African Desperate look like?

Sampled across 133 frames, the coverage of The African Desperate leans on close-ups (43% of the sample) and medium shots (35%). Cinematographer Daisy Zhou keeps 51% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Focus stays shallow in 80% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of The African Desperate?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The African Desperate (2022) are #31302f, #f4f4f3, #0f0e0f, #d2d2d1, #50514f, #aaafaf — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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