Sightlines · a concept

the image of thought

cinema and the brain; the image confronting thought with its outside.

On screen: the film thinks rather than depicts; the screen as a brain.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

D2001: A Space Odyssey1968

Across the collection

Häxan1922Man with a Movie Camera1929Alexander Nevsky1938Hamlet1948La Chinoise1967The Andromeda Strain1971F for Fake1973The Holy Mountain1973Apocalypse Now1979Stalker1979Altered States1980The Shining1980Tron1982Sans Soleil1983Come and See1985The Sacrifice1986Full Metal Jacket1987The Abyss1989Prospero's Books1991Natural Born Killers1994Ghost in the Shell1995Pi1998The Thin Red Line1998My Best Fiend1999Pulse2001Adaptation.2002Inception2010The Tree of Life2011Prometheus2012Ex Machina2015Arrival2016Vice2018Petrov's Flu2021