Sightlines · a concept

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the *reciprocal* autonomy of the sound-image and the visual-image in the audiovisual time-image (the precise name behind audiovisual-disjunction).

On screen: sound and image each a self-standing whole, communicating only across the interstice.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DChronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach1968DIndia Song1975

Across the collection

Sudden Fear1952Night and Fog1956Elevator to the Gallows1958Muriel, or the Time of Return1963Pierrot le Fou1965The Gospel According to St. Matthew1965Au Hasard Balthazar1966Mouchette1967PlayTime1967The Color of Pomegranates1969Land of Silence and Darkness1971The Conversation1974Mirror1975All the President's Men1976Fitzcarraldo1982Ran1985Shoah1985For All Mankind1989Mulholland Drive2001Touching the Void2003Her2013Son of Saul2015The Lobster2015Drive My Car2021Oppenheimer2023The Zone of Interest2023Sound of Falling2025Our Land2026