Sightlines · a concept

asw emptiness

built by void/whiteness (lyrical abstraction).

On screen: white/empty fields.

79 films in the collection register this concept · in the glossary


Deleuze’s own examples

DLate Spring1949

Across the collection

The Passion of Joan of Arc1928Odd Man Out1947Germany, Year Zero1948Hamlet1948Criss Cross1949I Vitelloni1953North by Northwest1959L'Avventura1960Shoot the Piano Player1960Carnival of Souls1962L'Eclisse1962Red Desert1964Alphaville1965Cul-de-sac1966Tokyo Drifter1966Le Samouraï1967Point Blank1967The Red and the White1967Army of Shadows1969Wanda1970THX 11381971The Last Picture Show1971Fata Morgana1972Last Tango in Paris1972Belladonna of Sadness1973The Spirit of the Beehive1973The Parallax View19743 Women1977The Ascent1977The Shout1978Stalker1979The Black Stallion1979The Onion Field1979American Gigolo1980Time Bandits1981The Killing Fields1984Manhunter1986Landscape in the Mist1988For All Mankind1989Mystery Train1989Night on Earth1991Only Yesterday1991Blue1993Naked1993Sonatine1993Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould1993Exotica1994Cure1997Insomnia1997Open Your Eyes1997The End of Violence1997Buffalo '661998101 Reykjavik2000Songs from the Second Floor2000Pulse2001Gerry2002PTU2003I Am Legend2007The Mist2007(500) Days of Summer2009Tiny Furniture2010Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 22011The Darkest Hour2011The Turin Horse2011Ida2013Inside Llewyn Davis2013Nebraska2013Boy & the World2014Godzilla2014Kubo and the Two Strings2016Silence2016Loveless2017First Man2018First Reformed2018Ad Astra2019Night in Paradise2020The Currents2025Backrooms2026