Sightlines · a concept

audiovisual disjunction

sound-image and visual-image become autonomous/incommensurable.

On screen: voice and image tell different stories; speech detached from visible bodies.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DChronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach1968DIndia Song1975

Across the collection

Gilda1946Hamlet1948Macbeth1948La Terra Trema1949Diary of a Country Priest1951Othello1951Sudden Fear1952Night and Fog1956Hiroshima Mon Amour1959Suddenly, Last Summer1959Eyes Without a Face1960Lolita1962Salvatore Giuliano1962Vivre Sa Vie1962Muriel, or the Time of Return1963Fail Safe1964Alphaville1965Chimes at Midnight1965Darling1965The Gospel According to St. Matthew1965Masculin Féminin1966PlayTime1967if....1968They Shoot Horses, Don't They?1969Klute1971Land of Silence and Darkness1971THX 11381971Walkabout1971Aguirre, the Wrath of God1972Fata Morgana1972Badlands1974A Bridge Too Far1977Annie Hall1977The American Friend1977Days of Heaven1978The Marriage of Maria Braun1979Blow Out1981Missing1982Nostalgia1983Sans Soleil1983Paris, Texas1984Brazil1985Come and See1985Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer1986The Sacrifice1986Good Morning, Vietnam1987Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown1988For All Mankind1989Prospero's Books1991Reservoir Dogs1992Faraway, So Close!1993Fallen Angels1995Breaking the Waves1996The Portrait of a Lady1996The Thin Red Line1998The Truman Show1998Election1999The Insider1999The Limey1999Beau Travail2000Before Night Falls2000Jesus' Son2000Elling2001The Man Who Wasn't There2001Y Tu Mamá También2001Hukkle2002Morvern Callar2002Rabbit-Proof Fence2002Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance2002Dogville2003Last Life in the Universe2003Lost in Translation2003Touching the Void2003Grizzly Man2005The Queen2006Michael Clayton2007Hunger2008Killing Them Softly2012Zero Dark Thirty2012Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)2014Inherent Vice2014Locke2014Son of Saul2015The Big Short2015Deadpool2016Kaili Blues2016Atomic Blonde2017You Were Never Really Here2017BlacKkKlansman2018Long Day's Journey Into Night2018Sorry to Bother You2018The Guilty2018Drive My Car2021Anatomy of a Fall2023Oppenheimer2023Society of the Snow2023The Zone of Interest2023Dreams2024Relay2025Romería2025The Voice of Hind Rajab2025Urchin2025Rose of Nevada2026