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Documenteur (1981) colour palette

Directed by Agnès Varda · Shot by Nurith Aviv

Documenteur (1981), shot by Nurith Aviv, runs muted and warm, measured across 35 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and cyan. The single most common colour is dark grey (#33302c), covering 7.4% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.463 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.258 — more saturated than 53% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.486 — brighter than 91% of ranked films

Measured across 35 frames. See the frames on the Documenteur page →

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