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.

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


Across the collection

Chronicle of a Summer1961The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner1962I Am Cuba1964Pierrot le Fou1965The Gospel According to St. Matthew1965Masculin Féminin1966The Battle of Algiers1966La Chinoise1967if....1968Medium Cool1969Z1969State of Siege1972O Lucky Man!1973The Marriage of Maria Braun1979The Tin Drum1979Platoon1986Hope and Glory1987Born on the Fourth of July1989Do the Right Thing1989Boyz n the Hood1991Prospero's Books1991Man Bites Dog1992Richard III1995Starship Troopers1997Y Tu Mamá También200124 Hour Party People200225th Hour2002Bus 1742002City of God2002Carandiru2003Vera Drake2004Grizzly Man2005Lord of War2005The New World2005Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan2006The Baader Meinhof Complex2008District 92009Fish Tank2009Carlos2010Green Zone2010Beasts of the Southern Wild2012Zero Dark Thirty2012Loveless2017The Florida Project2017BlacKkKlansman2018Capernaum2018Roma2018Brexit: The Uncivil War2019The Last Duel2021My Father's Shadow2025The Testament of Ann Lee2025Warfare2025Our Land2026