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.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DChronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach1968DIndia Song1975DHitler: A Film from Germany1978

Across the collection

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse1933The Tale of the Fox1941Dead of Night1945Detour1945Gilda1946Odd Man Out1947Brighton Rock1948Drunken Angel1948Hamlet1948Macbeth1948Kind Hearts and Coronets1949La Terra Trema1949Diary of a Country Priest1951Othello1951Singin' in the Rain1952Sudden Fear1952Monsieur Hulot's Holiday1953Night and Fog1956Hiroshima Mon Amour1959Suddenly, Last Summer1959Eyes Without a Face1960The Cloud-Capped Star1960When a Woman Ascends the Stairs1960The Innocents1961Carnival of Souls1962Lolita1962Salvatore Giuliano1962Vivre Sa Vie1962Lord of the Flies1963Muriel, or the Time of Return1963Take It All1963The House Is Black1963Blood and Black Lace1964Fail Safe1964Alphaville1965Chimes at Midnight1965Darling1965São Paulo, Incorporated1965The Gospel According to St. Matthew1965The Secret Formula1965Masculin Féminin1966War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova1966PlayTime1967Memories of Underdevelopment1968if....1968They Shoot Horses, Don't They?1969Valerie and Her Week of Wonders1970Klute1971Land of Silence and Darkness1971THX 11381971The Beguiled1971The Decameron1971Walkabout1971Aguirre, the Wrath of God1972Fata Morgana1972Soleil O1973Touki Bouki1973Badlands1974Lenny1974The Phantom of Liberty1974Shampoo1975A Bridge Too Far1977Annie Hall1977The American Friend1977Days of Heaven1978The Man Who Stole the Sun1979The Marriage of Maria Braun1979Blow Out1981Missing1982Born in Flames1983Nostalgia1983Sans Soleil1983Choose Me1984City of Pirates1984Paris, Texas1984The Element of Crime1984Brazil1985Come and See1985Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer1986The Sacrifice1986Good Morning, Vietnam1987Landscape Suicide1987Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown1988A City of Sadness1989For All Mankind1989Prospero's Books1991Reservoir Dogs1992Faraway, So Close!1993Three Colors: White1994Fallen Angels1995The Blade1995Breaking the Waves1996The Portrait of a Lady1996The Thin Red Line1998The Truman Show1998Election1999The Insider1999The Limey1999Beau Travail2000Before Night Falls2000Jesus' Son2000Elling2001Read My Lips2001The Man Who Wasn't There2001Y Tu Mamá También2001Hukkle2002Morvern Callar2002Rabbit-Proof Fence2002Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance2002Dogville2003Last Life in the Universe2003Lost in Translation2003Touching the Void2003Evolution of a Filipino Family2004Grizzly Man2005The Wayward Cloud2005The Queen2006Michael Clayton2007Extraordinary Stories2008Hunger2008The Headless Woman2008Polytechnique2009Pina2011Killing Them Softly2012Like Someone in Love2012Zero Dark Thirty2012Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)2014From What Is Before2014Inherent Vice2014Locke2014Anomalisa2015Son of Saul2015The Big Short2015Deadpool2016Kaili Blues2016Personal Shopper2016Atomic Blonde2017Okja2017The Greatest Showman2017You Were Never Really Here2017Zama2017At Eternity's Gate2018BlacKkKlansman2018Long Day's Journey Into Night2018Sorry to Bother You2018The Guilty2018La Flor2019Sound of Metal2020Summer of 852020Drive My Car2021Last Night in Soho2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun2021Elvis2022Incantation2022The Black Phone2022White Noise2022Anatomy of a Fall2023Oppenheimer2023Perfect Days2023Society of the Snow2023The Zone of Interest2023Dreams2024Relay2025Romería2025The Voice of Hind Rajab2025Urchin2025"Wuthering Heights"2026Rose of Nevada2026The Sheep Detectives2026