Sightlines · a concept

the Open

the whole as ceaseless change/duration, not a closed set; montage relates the image to it.

On screen: a sense that the framed set opens onto a larger changing whole; the "absolute" out-of-field.

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

Across the collection

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages1916La Roue1923Earth1930Hell's Angels1930Captain Blood1935Grand Illusion1937The Adventures of Robin Hood1938Enamorada1946The Treasure of the Sierra Madre1948Wagon Master1950The River1951Shane1953Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto1954Sansho the Bailiff1954Rebel Without a Cause1955The Killing1956The Incredible Shrinking Man1957Mon Oncle1958Touch of Evil1958The Longest Day1962Dog Star Man: Part IV1964War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova1966Frenzy1972Barry Lyndon1975Close Encounters of the Third Kind1977Tess1979Local Hero1983Silverado1985Something Wild1986My Neighbor Totoro1988The Abyss1989Dances with Wolves1990Night on Earth1991Indochine1992Short Cuts1993The Nightmare Before Christmas1993Last Night1998Belfast, Maine1999Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World2003The Chorus2004The New World2005Apocalypto2006Children of Men2006Silent Light2007Gravity2013Boyhood2014Godzilla2014Mommy2014Dune2021Babylon2022The Banshees of Inisherin2022Flow2024Wicked2024Avatar: Fire and Ash2025Sinners2025The Odyssey2026