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.

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

Across the collection

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages1916Grand Illusion1937The Treasure of the Sierra Madre1948Shane1953Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto1954Sansho the Bailiff1954Rebel Without a Cause1955The Killing1956Touch of Evil1958The Longest Day1962Frenzy1972Barry Lyndon1975Close Encounters of the Third Kind1977The Abyss1989Dances with Wolves1990Indochine1992Short Cuts1993Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World2003The New World2005Apocalypto2006Children of Men2006Silent Light2007Gravity2013Godzilla2014Mommy2014Dune2021The Banshees of Inisherin2022Sinners2025