Sightlines · a concept

dicisign

"solid" perception; a perception framed within another (free indirect / semi-subjective).

On screen: the camera perceives a character who is perceiving; we feel the camera's presence.

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

Across the collection

The Last Laugh1924Man with a Movie Camera1929The Lady Eve1941Gilda1946Notorious1946Dark Passage1947Rope1948Gun Crazy1950In a Lonely Place1950Shane1953Rear Window1954To Catch a Thief195519841956The Man Who Knew Too Much195612 Angry Men1957The Cranes Are Flying1957Peeping Tom1960Primary1960Psycho1960To Kill a Mockingbird1962A Hard Day's Night1964Marnie1964The Ipcress File1965Seconds1966The Battle of Algiers1966Rosemary's Baby1968The Thomas Crown Affair1968Medium Cool1969The Swimming Pool1969M*A*S*H1970A Clockwork Orange1971The French Connection1971Don't Look Now1973The Exorcist1973The Long Goodbye1973Grey Gardens1976Taxi Driver1976The Tenant1976The American Friend1977Dressed to Kill1980The Elephant Man1980Gorky Park1983Body Double1984Blue Velvet1986Manhunter1986Mona Lisa1986Cinema Paradiso1988Colors1988The Silence of the Lambs1991Basic Instinct1992Man Bites Dog1992The Madness of King George1994Heat1995La Promesse1996Mission: Impossible1996Pusher1996The Arrival1996When We Were Kings1996Boogie Nights1997Enemy of the State1998Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas1998Pi1998Saving Private Ryan1998The Celebration1998The Truman Show1998Following1999The Blair Witch Project1999The Insider1999The Thomas Crown Affair1999Best in Show2000Enemy at the Gates2001Training Day2001Bloody Sunday2002Russian Ark2002Girl with a Pearl Earring2003Kitchen Stories2003The Bourne Supremacy2004King Kong2005Déjà Vu2006The Last King of Scotland2006I'm Not There2007Mad Detective2007The Bourne Ultimatum2007Body of Lies2008Cloverfield2008Iron Man2008Mesrine: Public Enemy #12008The Hurt Locker2008The Wrestler2008Enter the Void2010The Town2010A Separation2011Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy2011Jack Reacher2012Captain Phillips2013Man of Steel2013The Berlin File2013A Most Wanted Man2014Force Majeure2014Godzilla2014Nightcrawler2014The World of Kanako2014Bridge of Spies2015Carol2015Creed2015Ex Machina2015The Martian2015Jason Bourne2016Baby Driver2017Forgotten2017Sicario: Day of the Soldado2018Official Secrets2019Portrait of a Lady on Fire2019Saint Maud2020A Quiet Place Part II2021X2022Monster2023Saltburn2023The Substance2024Woman of the Hour2024Black Bag2025Bugonia2025Pillion2025