Sightlines · a concept

free indirect discourse political

filmmaker and people fused in an impersonal enunciation.

On screen: author/character vision fused; the camera speaking-for.

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

Across the collection

The Cloud-Capped Star1960Chronicle of a Summer1961The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner1962I Am Cuba1964Pierrot le Fou1965The Gospel According to St. Matthew1965Masculin Féminin1966The Battle of Algiers1966La Chinoise1967Memories of Underdevelopment1968if....1968Medea1969Medium Cool1969Z1969The Decameron1971State of Siege1972O Lucky Man!1973Soleil O1973The Marriage of Maria Braun1979The Tin Drum1979Fast Times at Ridgemont High1982Born in Flames1983Sugar Cane Alley1983Memories of Prison1984Platoon1986Hope and Glory1987La Bamba1987Born on the Fourth of July1989Do the Right Thing1989Close-Up1990Boyz n the Hood1991Paris Is Burning1991Prospero's Books1991Man Bites Dog1992Orlando1992Menace II Society1993Sankofa1993A Borrowed Life1995Richard III1995Starship Troopers1997Ride with the Devil1999The Gleaners and I2000Y Tu Mamá También200124 Hour Party People200225th Hour2002Bus 1742002City of God2002Carandiru2003La Commune (Paris, 1871)2003Vera Drake2004Grizzly Man2005Lord of War2005The New World2005Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan2006The Baader Meinhof Complex2008The Headless Woman2008District 92009Fish Tank2009Carlos2010Green Zone2010Beasts of the Southern Wild2012Zero Dark Thirty2012The Wind Rises2013Boy & the World2014Loveless2017Mudbound2017The Florida Project2017BlacKkKlansman2018Capernaum2018Roma2018Brexit: The Uncivil War2019David Byrne's American Utopia2020The Last Duel2021Kantara2022Sing Sing2024My Father's Shadow2025The Testament of Ann Lee2025Warfare2025Citizen Vigilante2026Our Land2026