Sightlines · a concept

the closed set (cadre)

the artificially closed system holding everything in the image; makes it legible + visible.

On screen: emphatic, information-dense composition treated as a system.

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

Across the collection

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans1927Spies1928Dishonored1931The Scarlet Empress1934The Little Foxes1941The Best Years of Our Lives1946The Lady from Shanghai1947Ikiru1952The Big Heat1953Dial M for Murder1954All That Heaven Allows1955Rebel Without a Cause1955The Ladykillers1955The Killing1956The Searchers1956Paths of Glory1957Cat on a Hot Tin Roof1958Look Back in Anger1959The Human Condition I: No Greater Love1959Knife in the Water1962Long Day's Journey Into Night1962The Manchurian Candidate1962High and Low1963Seven Days in May1964Chimes at Midnight1965The Hill1965The Ipcress File1965Come Drink with Me1966The Graduate1967The Party1968The Thomas Crown Affair1968The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant1972Halloween1978The Marriage of Maria Braun1979Time Bandits1981The Draughtsman's Contract1982Tron1982A Zed & Two Noughts1985A Room with a View1986The Last Emperor1987The Untouchables1987Nikita1990Glengarry Glen Ross1992Howards End1992Jurassic Park1993The Age of Innocence1993The Remains of the Day1993Sense and Sensibility1995Rushmore1998American Beauty1999Songs from the Second Floor2000Unbreakable2000Amélie2001In the Bedroom2001The Royal Tenenbaums2001House of Sand and Fog2003Napoleon Dynamite2004The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou20043002007Snowpiercer2013A Hard Day2014Mommy2014The Grand Budapest Hotel2014Mad Max: Fury Road2015The Assassin2015The Hateful Eight2015Graduation2016Hell or High Water2016Beanpole2019Midsommar2019Parasite2019Dear Comrades!2020The Man Standing Next2020Zack Snyder's Justice League2021The Outfit2022Saltburn2023Die My Love2025Two Prosecutors2025