Sightlines · a concept

originary world

the primitive predatory world beneath the social milieu.

On screen: a milieu revealed as a savage "originary world.".

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DBelle de Jour1967DThe Exterminating Angel1962DGreed1924DThe Young and the Damned1950

Across the collection

Nosferatu1922Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans1927Un Chien Andalou1929L'Âge d'or1930The Blue Angel1930Frankenstein1931Tabu: A Story of the South Seas1931Freaks1932Scarface1932The Scarlet Empress1934Toni1935Obsession1943Double Indemnity1944Mildred Pierce1945The Postman Always Rings Twice1946Black Narcissus1947Macbeth1948The Treasure of the Sierra Madre1948Gun Crazy1950Night and the City1950The Asphalt Jungle1950A Streetcar Named Desire1951Ace in the Hole1951Gate of Hell1953Pickup on South Street1953The Big Heat1953The Wages of Fear1953Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto1954East of Eden1955The Man with the Golden Arm1955The Night of the Hunter1955Invasion of the Body Snatchers1956Written on the Wind1956Sweet Smell of Success1957Suddenly, Last Summer1959Eyes Without a Face1960Peeping Tom1960Psycho1960Rocco and His Brothers1960The Little Shop of Horrors1960The Virgin Spring1960Cape Fear1962Viridiana1962What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?1962Hud1963Shock Corridor1963The Servant1963Diary of a Chambermaid1964Onibaba1964The Night of the Iguana1964Repulsion1965Django1966The Sword of Doom1966Branded to Kill1967In Cold Blood1967Weekend1967Night of the Living Dead1968Oliver!1968The Wild Bunch1969Beyond the Valley of the Dolls1970El Topo1970Carnal Knowledge1971Even Dwarfs Started Small1971Get Carter1971Straw Dogs1971Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory1971Aguirre, the Wrath of God1972Deliverance1972Frenzy1972Last Tango in Paris1972The Exorcist1973The Holy Mountain1973The Night Porter1974The Texas Chain Saw Massacre1974The Stepford Wives1975Carrie1976In the Realm of the Senses1976Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom1976Taxi Driver1976Equus1977Eraserhead1977Suspiria1977Halloween1978Midnight Express1978Alien1979The Tin Drum1979Woyzeck1979Altered States1980From the Life of the Marionettes1980Pixote1980Raging Bull1980The Elephant Man1980Body Heat1981Escape from New York1981Possession1981The Postman Always Rings Twice1981Fitzcarraldo1982El Norte1983Scarface1983Under the Volcano1984Tampopo1985Blue Velvet1986Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer1986Platoon1986The Fly1986Angel Heart1987Fatal Attraction1987Full Metal Jacket1987Raising Arizona1987RoboCop1987Akira1988Mississippi Burning1988Salaam Bombay!1988The Vanishing1988Do the Right Thing1989Drugstore Cowboy1989Leviathan1989Santa Sangre1989Sweetie1989The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover1989King of New York1990Wild at Heart1990Barton Fink1991Cape Fear1991Delicatessen1991Life Is Sweet1991Naked Lunch1991The Doors1991The Silence of the Lambs1991Bad Lieutenant1992Jamon Jamon1992Once Were Warriors1994Clockers1995Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life1995Kids1995Se7en1995Crash1996Fargo1996Pusher1996The Funeral1996Trainspotting1996Cure1997Gummo1997Nil by Mouth1997The Eel1997The Lost World: Jurassic Park1997Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas1998Godzilla1998Happiness1998Fight Club1999Ratcatcher1999Rosetta1999Titus1999Amores Perros2000Requiem for a Dream2000Hannibal2001Ichi the Killer2001Intacto2001L.I.E.2001Sexy Beast2001The Piano Teacher200128 Days Later2002Gangs of New York2002Irreversible2002Mango Yellow2002Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance2002Gozu2003Monster2003The Cooler2003Grizzly Man2005Sin City2005The Proposition2005War of the Worlds2005Apocalypto2006Destiny2006The Host200628 Weeks Later2007No Country for Old Men2007There Will Be Blood2007Gomorrah2008Mesrine: Killer Instinct2008The Chaser2008The Hurt Locker2008Antichrist2009Dogtooth2009Thirst2009Black Swan2010I Saw the Devil2010The Man from Nowhere2010The Yellow Sea2010Drive2011Shame2011The Dark Knight Rises2012The Master2012Elysium2013Only God Forgives2013Prisoners2013The Wolf of Wall Street2013Nightcrawler2014The Babadook2014Under the Skin2014It Follows2015The Revenant2015Asura: The City of Madness2016Creepy2016Hacksaw Ridge2016The Neon Demon2016The Witch2016Alien: Covenant2017The Killing of a Sacred Deer2017Annihilation2018The Favourite2018Honeyland2019Parasite2019The Lighthouse2019The Painted Bird2019Uncut Gems2019Beasts Clawing at Straws2020Possessor2020Nightmare Alley2021Titane2021All Quiet on the Western Front2022Nope2022The Menu2022Triangle of Sadness2022X2022Killers of the Flower Moon2023Poor Things2023Saltburn2023The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon2023To Catch a Killer2023Alien: Romulus2024Longlegs2024Misericordia2024Nosferatu2024The Brutalist2024The Girl with the Needle2024The Order2024The Substance202428 Years Later2025Afternoons of Solitude2025Die My Love2025Magellan2025Marty Supreme2025No Other Choice2025Sinners2025Urchin202528 Years Later: The Bone Temple2026