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.

289 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

Vampyr1932Day of Wrath1943Paisan1946Shoeshine1946La Terra Trema1949Diary of a Country Priest1951La Strada1954Sansho the Bailiff1954Ordet1955Pather Panchali1955A Man Escaped1956Night and Fog1956Nights of Cabiria1957Wild Strawberries1957Elevator to the Gallows1958Hiroshima Mon Amour1959Pickpocket1959The 400 Blows1959Eyes Without a Face1960La Dolce Vita1960Shoot the Piano Player1960Chronicle of a Summer1961Through a Glass Darkly1961Ivan's Childhood1962L'Eclisse1962La Jetée1962The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner1962Vivre Sa Vie1962Contempt1963Muriel, or the Time of Return1963The Silence1963Winter Light1963Band of Outsiders1964Gertrud1964Pale Flower1964Red Desert1964The Umbrellas of Cherbourg1964Woman in the Dunes1964Juliet of the Spirits1965Repulsion1965The Pawnbroker1965Andrei Rublev1966Au Hasard Balthazar1966Blow-Up1966Masculin Féminin1966Persona1966Mouchette1967PlayTime1967Weekend19672001: A Space Odyssey1968Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach1968Petulia1968Theorem1968Easy Rider1969The Color of Pomegranates1969Five Easy Pieces1970Kes1970Wanda1970Bleak Moments1971Death in Venice1971Klute1971Land of Silence and Darkness1971THX 11381971Two-Lane Blacktop1971Walkabout1971Cries and Whispers1972Fata Morgana1972Last Tango in Paris1972Silent Running1972Slaughterhouse-Five1972Solaris1972A Woman Under the Influence1974Alice in the Cities1974Badlands1974Scenes 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 Women1977Eraserhead1977Stroszek1977Autumn Sonata1978Days of Heaven1978Nosferatu the Vampyre1979Stalker1979L'Argent1983Meantime1983Nostalgia1983Rumble Fish1983Sans Soleil1983Stranger Than Paradise1983Paris, Texas1984Stranger Than Paradise1984The Killing Fields1984A Zed & Two Noughts1985Come and See1985Ran1985Shoah1985Down by Law1986The Sacrifice1986Au Revoir les Enfants1987Babette's Feast1987Wings of Desire1987Chocolat1988Damnation1988Landscape in the Mist1988Decalogue I1989For All Mankind1989Mystery Train1989The Seventh Continent1989Violent Cop1989sex, lies, and videotape1989Days of Being Wild1990Dreams1990Slacker1990Barton Fink1991My Own Private Idaho1991Raise the Red Lantern1991The Double Life of Véronique1991Lessons of Darkness1992Faraway, So Close!1993Sonatine1993Three Colors: Blue1993Chungking Express1994Fallen Angels1995Ghost in the Shell1995Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life1995La Haine1995Safe1995Secrets & Lies1996Cure1997Fireworks1997Funny Games1997Happy Together1997Taste of Cherry1997The End of Violence1997Buffalo '661998Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon1998The Thin Red Line1998After Life1999Eyes Wide Shut1999Humanité1999Julien Donkey-Boy1999Ratcatcher1999The Blair Witch Project1999101 Reykjavik2000Beau Travail2000Before Night Falls2000Code Unknown2000Dancer in the Dark2000In the Mood for Love2000Jesus' Son2000Songs from the Second Floor2000The Virgin Suicides2000Millennium 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 Albino2003Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring2003The Station Agent200320462004Tropical Malady2004Caché2005Grizzly Man2005Jarhead2005The Death of Mr. Lazarescu2005The New World2005Babel2006Children of Men2006Inland Empire20064 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days2007I Am Legend2007Silent Light2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford2007Zodiac2007Gomorrah2008Hunger2008Still Walking2008Tokyo Sonata2008Wendy and Lucy2008The White Ribbon2009Enter the Void2010Police, Adjective2010The American2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives2010Meek's Cutoff2011Once Upon a Time in Anatolia2011Oslo, August 31st2011The Tree of Life2011The Turin Horse2011We Need to Talk About Kevin2011Amour2012Ida2013Inside Llewyn Davis2013Only God Forgives2013The Grandmaster2013A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence2014Enemy2014Under the Skin201445 Years2015Cemetery of Splendor2015Son of Saul2015The Assassin2015After the Storm2016Kaili Blues2016Moonlight2016Loveless2017You Were Never Really Here2017Burning2018First Reformed2018Long Day's Journey Into Night2018Roma2018Shoplifters2018Beanpole2019Honeyland2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood2019Portrait of a Lady on Fire2019The Painted Bird2019The Report2019Dear Comrades!2020Drive My Car2021Petrov's Flu2021Aftersun2022EO2022The Banshees of Inisherin2022Past Lives2023Civil War2024Dreams2024Afternoons 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 Currents2025The Ice Tower2025The Little Sister2025The Love That Remains2025The Voice of Hind Rajab2025Train Dreams2025Two Prosecutors2025Warfare2025Blue Heron2026Dry Leaf2026Our Land2026Silent Friend2026