Sightlines · a concept

temps mort

dedramatized empty duration.

On screen: stretches where nothing advances the action; the everyday held.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DL'Avventura1960DLa Notte1961DLate Spring1949DUmberto D.1952

Across the collection

Day of Wrath1943Paisan1946Bicycle Thieves1948Germany, Year Zero1948La Terra Trema1949Stromboli1950Diary of a Country Priest1951Europa '511952Ikiru1952I Vitelloni1953Tokyo Story1953Ugetsu1953Journey to Italy1954Marty1955Ordet1955Pather Panchali1955Elevator to the Gallows1958Look Back in Anger1959La Dolce Vita1960A Taste of Honey1961A Kind of Loving1962L'Eclisse1962The Leopard1963The Silence1963Winter Light1963Gertrud1964Pale Flower1964Andrei Rublev1966Blow-Up1966Mouchette19672001: A Space Odyssey1968My Night at Maud's1969Husbands1970Wanda1970Bleak Moments1971Death in Venice1971Land of Silence and Darkness1971Two-Lane Blacktop1971Silent Running1972Solaris1972A Woman Under the Influence1974Alice in the Cities1974The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser1974Barry Lyndon1975India Song1975Picnic at Hanging Rock1975The Passenger1975Grey Gardens1976Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles1976The Killing of a Chinese Bookie1976Eraserhead1977Stroszek1977Days of Heaven1978Nosferatu the Vampyre1979Stalker1979The Onion Field1979Meantime1983Nostalgia1983Stranger Than Paradise1983Stranger Than Paradise1984The Killing Fields1984Down by Law1986The Sacrifice1986Chocolat1988Damnation1988Landscape in the Mist1988For All Mankind1989Mystery Train1989The Seventh Continent1989Violent Cop1989Slacker1990Sonatine1993Three Colors: Blue1993Satantango1994Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life1995Safe1995Secrets & Lies1996Fireworks1997Funny Games1997Taste of Cherry1997Buffalo '661998Humanité1999101 Reykjavik2000Code Unknown2000Jesus' Son2000Songs from the Second Floor2000A.I. Artificial Intelligence2001In the Bedroom2001Millennium Mambo2001Pulse2001Werckmeister Harmonies2001Gerry2002Morvern Callar2002The Pianist2002To Be and to Have2002Bright Future2003Elephant2003Kitchen Stories2003Last Life in the Universe2003Lost in Translation2003PTU2003Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring2003The Station Agent2003Napoleon Dynamite2004Tropical Malady2004Jarhead2005The Death of Mr. Lazarescu2005The New World200512:08 East of Bucharest2006Destiny20064 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days2007Silent Light2007Still Walking2008Synecdoche, New York2008Wendy and Lucy2008Police, Adjective2010The American2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives2010Meek's Cutoff2011Once Upon a Time in Anatolia2011Oslo, August 31st2011Shame2011The Turin Horse2011Amour2012A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence201445 Years2015Cemetery of Splendor2015The Assassin2015After the Storm2016Moonlight2016Toni Erdmann2016Blade Runner 20492017Loveless2017The Square2017First Reformed2018Roma2018The Painted Bird2019Night in Paradise2020Drive My Car2021The Banshees of Inisherin2022The Zone of Interest2023Misericordia2024Afternoons of Solitude2025Blue Moon2025Cactus Pears2025Father Mother Sister Brother2025Magellan2025My Father's Shadow2025Pompei: Below the Clouds2025Sorry, Baby2025The Love That Remains2025The Mastermind2025Train Dreams2025Two Prosecutors2025Warfare2025Blue Heron2026Dry Leaf2026Silent Friend2026