Sightlines · a concept

pure optical & sound situations

perception severed from action; the image opens onto time.

On screen: a character (and we) can only look/listen, with no action available.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DBicycle Thieves1948DEuropa '511952DSatyricon1969DGermany, Year Zero1948DL'Avventura1960DLa Notte1961DRome, Open City1945DStromboli1950DTokyo Story1953DJourney to Italy1954DIndia Song1975DLate Spring1949DUmberto D.1952

Across the collection

Vampyr1932High Sierra1941Sullivan's Travels1941Day of Wrath1943A Canterbury Tale1944I Know Where I'm Going!1945Beauty and the Beast1946It's a Wonderful Life1946Paisan1946Shoeshine1946Odd Man Out1947La Terra Trema1949The Heiress1949The Gunfighter1950Diary of a Country Priest1951The War of the Worlds1953Godzilla1954La Strada1954Sansho the Bailiff1954Kiss Me Deadly1955Ordet1955Pather Panchali1955The Big Combo1955A Man Escaped1956Night and Fog1956Nights of Cabiria1957Pyaasa1957Wild Strawberries1957Elevator to the Gallows1958Hiroshima Mon Amour1959Pickpocket1959The 400 Blows1959Eyes Without a Face1960La Dolce Vita1960Shoot the Piano Player1960Chronicle of a Summer1961The Innocents1961Through a Glass Darkly1961An Autumn Afternoon1962Carnival of Souls1962Cléo from 5 to 71962Ivan's Childhood1962L'Eclisse1962La Jetée1962The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner1962Vivre Sa Vie1962Contempt1963It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World1963Muriel, or the Time of Return1963The House Is Black1963The Silence1963Winter Light1963Band of Outsiders1964Charulata1964Gertrud1964Hamlet1964Pale Flower1964Red Desert1964The Umbrellas of Cherbourg1964Woman in the Dunes1964Juliet of the Spirits1965Repulsion1965The Flight of the Phoenix1965The Pawnbroker1965Andrei Rublev1966Au Hasard Balthazar1966Blow-Up1966Masculin Féminin1966Persona1966The Brick and the Mirror1966Mouchette1967PlayTime1967Titicut Follies1967Wavelength1967Weekend19672001: A Space Odyssey1968Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach1968Memories of Underdevelopment1968Petulia1968Theorem1968Easy Rider1969L'Amour fou1969The Color of Pomegranates1969Five Easy Pieces1970Kes1970The Bird with the Crystal Plumage1970Wanda1970Bleak Moments1971Death in Venice1971Klute1971Land of Silence and Darkness1971THX 11381971Two-Lane Blacktop1971Walkabout1971Cries and Whispers1972Fata Morgana1972Last Tango in Paris1972Silent Running1972Slaughterhouse-Five1972Solaris1972The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes1972Sambizanga1973The Mother and the Whore1973The Spirit of the Beehive1973Touki Bouki1973A Woman Under the Influence1974Alice in the Cities1974Badlands1974Céline and Julie Go Boating1974Scenes from a Marriage1974The Conversation1974The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser1974Mirror1975Picnic at Hanging Rock1975The Passenger1975Heart of Glass1976Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles1976The Killing of a Chinese Bookie1976The Man Who Fell to Earth19763 Women1977Eraserhead1977News from Home1977Stroszek1977The Ascent1977Autumn Sonata1978Days of Heaven1978Killer of Sheep1978The Shout1978The Tree of Wooden Clogs1978Kummatty1979Nosferatu the Vampyre1979Scum1979Stalker1979The Black Stallion1979My Dinner with Andre1981Fast Times at Ridgemont High1982L'Argent1983Local Hero1983Meantime1983Nostalgia1983Risky Business1983Rumble Fish1983Sans Soleil1983Stranger Than Paradise1983Sugar Cane Alley1983Testament1983Love Streams1984Memories of Prison1984Nineteen Eighty-Four1984Paris, Texas1984Stranger Than Paradise1984The Killing Fields1984A Zed & Two Noughts1985Come and See1985Ran1985Shoah1985Down by Law1986Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling1986The Green Ray1986The Sacrifice1986Au Revoir les Enfants1987Babette's Feast1987Landscape Suicide1987The Dead1987Where Is The Friend's House?1987Wings of Desire1987Chocolat1988Damnation1988Distant Voices, Still Lives1988Grave of the Fireflies1988Landscape in the Mist1988My Neighbor Totoro1988A City of Sadness1989Decalogue I1989For All Mankind1989Mystery Train1989The Seventh Continent1989Violent Cop1989sex, lies, and videotape1989Days of Being Wild1990Dreams1990House Party1990Metropolitan1990Slacker1990A Brighter Summer Day1991Barton Fink1991Daughters of the Dust1991La Belle Noiseuse1991My Own Private Idaho1991Night on Earth1991Only Yesterday1991Raise the Red Lantern1991The Double Life of Véronique1991Lessons of Darkness1992Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me1992Blue1993Faraway, So Close!1993Moving1993Sonatine1993Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould1993Three Colors: Blue1993Before the Rain1994Chungking Express1994Exotica1994Hoop Dreams1994Rebels of the Neon God1994Three Colors: White1994A Borrowed Life1995Before Sunrise1995Fallen Angels1995Ghost in the Shell1995Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life1995La Haine1995Safe1995Bottle Rocket1996Secrets & Lies1996Chasing Amy1997Cure1997Fireworks1997Funny Games1997Happy Together1997Insomnia1997Taste of Cherry1997The End of Violence1997Buffalo '661998Bullet Ballet1998Flowers of Shanghai1998Last Night1998Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon1998The Last Days of Disco1998The Thin Red Line1998After Life1999Belfast, Maine1999Buena Vista Social Club1999Eyes Wide Shut1999Girl, Interrupted1999Humanité1999Julien Donkey-Boy1999Ratcatcher1999The Blair Witch Project1999Topsy-Turvy1999101 Reykjavik2000Beau Travail2000Before Night Falls2000Code Unknown2000Dancer in the Dark2000In the Mood for Love2000Jesus' Son2000Songs from the Second Floor2000The Virgin Suicides2000Yi Yi2000Batang West Side2001Fat Girl2001Ghost World2001La Ciénaga2001Millennium Mambo2001Pulse2001Werckmeister Harmonies2001Gerry2002Hukkle2002Morvern Callar2002Talk to Her2002The Pianist2002To Be and to Have2002Bright Future2003Elephant2003Girl with a Pearl Earring2003Gozu2003Kitchen Stories2003Last Life in the Universe2003Laurel Canyon2003Lost in Translation2003Memories of Murder2003Noi the Albino2003Save the Green Planet!2003Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring2003The Station Agent200320462004Birth2004Evolution of a Filipino Family2004The Chorus2004Tropical Malady2004Caché2005Grizzly Man2005Jarhead2005Me and You and Everyone We Know2005The Beat That My Heart Skipped2005The Death of Mr. Lazarescu2005The New World2005The Wayward Cloud2005Babel2006Children of Men2006Inland Empire2006Marie Antoinette2006Syndromes and a Century20064 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days2007Control2007I Am Legend2007Silent Light2007Sunshine2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford2007The Darjeeling Limited2007Zodiac2007Che: Part Two2008Gomorrah2008Hunger2008Martyrs2008Still Walking2008The Headless Woman2008Tokyo Sonata2008Twilight2008Wendy and Lucy2008A Single Man2009The Lovely Bones2009The White Ribbon2009Enter the Void2010Police, Adjective2010The American2010The Secret World of Arrietty2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives2010Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 22011Meek's Cutoff2011Melancholia2011Once Upon a Time in Anatolia2011Oslo, August 31st2011Pina2011The Kid with a Bike2011The Tree of Life2011The Turin Horse2011We Need to Talk About Kevin2011Amour2012Beyond the Hills2012Life of Pi2012Like Someone in Love2012Post Tenebras Lux2012Sinister2012Before Midnight2013Ida2013Inside Llewyn Davis2013Nebraska2013Only God Forgives2013Stoker2013The Grandmaster2013The Great Beauty2013A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night2014A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence2014Boyhood2014Enemy2014From What Is Before2014Hard to Be a God2014Leviathan2014The Fault in Our Stars2014Under the Skin2014When Marnie Was There201445 Years2015Anomalisa2015Cemetery of Splendor2015Dheepan2015Son of Saul2015The Assassin2015After the Storm2016Certain Women2016Kaili Blues2016Me Before You2016Moonlight2016Personal Shopper2016Silence2016Visaranai2016Before I Fall2017Good Time2017Loveless2017Okja2017The Other Side of Hope2017War for the Planet of the Apes2017You Were Never Really Here2017At Eternity's Gate2018Burning2018First Reformed2018I Want to Eat Your Pancreas2018Long Day's Journey Into Night2018Roma2018Shoplifters2018The Rider2018Wildlife2018Beanpole2019Honeyland2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood2019Portrait of a Lady on Fire2019Spider-Man: Far From Home2019The Painted Bird2019The Report2019All the Bright Places2020Dear Comrades!2020Last and First Men2020Marona's Fantastic Tale2020Sound of Metal2020Drive My Car2021Fear Street: 19942021Last Night in Soho2021Memoria2021Petite Maman2021Petrov's Flu2021The Hand of God2021A Man Called Otto2022Aftersun2022Avatar: The Way of Water2022EO2022Smile2022The Banshees of Inisherin2022The Black Phone2022The Fabelmans2022The Quiet Girl2022Five Nights at Freddy's2023Past Lives2023Perfect Days2023Priscilla2023A Real Pain2024Civil War2024Dreams2024Heretic2024I Saw the TV Glow2024Inside Out 22024Sing Sing2024Twisters2024Afternoons of Solitude2025Cactus Pears2025Father Mother Sister Brother2025If I Had Legs I'd Kick You2025Kontinental '252025Magellan2025Miroirs No. 32025My Father's Shadow2025Peter Hujar's Day2025Pompei: Below the Clouds2025Resurrection2025Romería2025Sirāt2025Sorry, Baby2025Sound of Falling2025The Conjuring: Last Rites2025The Currents2025The Ice Tower2025The Little Sister2025The Long Walk2025The Love That Remains2025The Voice of Hind Rajab2025Thunderbolts*2025Train Dreams2025Two Prosecutors2025Warfare2025Backrooms2026Blue Heron2026Dry Leaf2026Girls Like Girls2026In Waves2026Our Land2026Silent Friend2026The Death of Robin Hood2026The Sheep Detectives2026