Sightlines · a concept

originary world

the primitive predatory world beneath the social milieu.

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

403 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

Nosferatu1922La Roue1923Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans1927The Circus1928Pandora's Box1929Un Chien Andalou1929L'Âge d'or1930The Blue Angel1930Frankenstein1931Tabu: A Story of the South Seas1931Freaks1932Scarface1932King Kong1933The Scarlet Empress1934Toni1935My Man Godfrey1936High Sierra1941The Tale of the Fox1941Cat People1942Obsession1943Double Indemnity1944Mildred Pierce1945The Postman Always Rings Twice1946Black Narcissus1947Brighton Rock1948Drunken Angel1948Macbeth1948Oliver Twist1948The Treasure of the Sierra Madre1948Criss Cross1949The Queen of Spades1949Gun Crazy1950Night and the City1950The Asphalt Jungle1950A Streetcar Named Desire1951Ace in the Hole1951Victims of Sin1951Gate of Hell1953Pickup on South Street1953The Big Heat1953The Naked Spur1953The Wages of Fear1953Godzilla1954Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto1954East of Eden1955The Man with the Golden Arm1955The Night of the Hunter1955Forbidden Planet1956Invasion of the Body Snatchers1956Written on the Wind1956Sweet Smell of Success1957The Incredible Shrinking Man1957Cairo Station1958Suddenly, Last Summer1959Cruel Story of Youth1960Eyes Without a Face1960Peeping Tom1960Psycho1960Rocco and His Brothers1960The Little Shop of Horrors1960The Virgin Spring1960One-Eyed Jacks1961Cape Fear1962Viridiana1962What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?1962Hud1963It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World1963Lord of the Flies1963Shock Corridor1963The Servant1963Blood and Black Lace1964Diary of a Chambermaid1964Onibaba1964The Night of the Iguana1964Repulsion1965The Flight of the Phoenix1965The Secret Formula1965Cul-de-sac1966Django1966The Sword of Doom1966Branded to Kill1967In Cold Blood1967Weekend1967Night of the Living Dead1968Oliver!1968The Cremator1969The Wild Bunch1969Beyond the Valley of the Dolls1970El Topo1970Tristana1970Valerie and Her Week of Wonders1970Carnal Knowledge1971Even Dwarfs Started Small1971Get Carter1971Straw Dogs1971The Beguiled1971Wake in Fright1971Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory1971Aguirre, the Wrath of God1972Deliverance1972Frenzy1972Last Tango in Paris1972Pink Flamingos1972Belladonna of Sadness1973The Exorcist1973The Holy Mountain1973The Night Porter1974The Texas Chain Saw Massacre1974The Stepford Wives1975Carrie1976Female Trouble1976In the Realm of the Senses1976Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom1976Taxi Driver1976Equus1977Eraserhead1977Jabberwocky1977Suspiria1977The Ascent1977Halloween1978Killer of Sheep1978Midnight Express1978The Shout1978The Wiz1978Watership Down1978Alien1979Scum1979Tess1979The Brood1979The Man Who Stole the Sun1979The Tin Drum1979Woyzeck1979Altered States1980From the Life of the Marionettes1980Pixote1980Raging Bull1980The Elephant Man1980Body Heat1981Escape from New York1981Kisapmata1981Possession1981The Postman Always Rings Twice1981Fitzcarraldo1982White Dog1982El Norte1983Risky Business1983Scarface1983The Element of Crime1984Under the Volcano1984After Hours1985Tampopo1985Betty Blue1986Blue Velvet1986Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer1986Platoon1986Sid and Nancy1986The Fly1986Angel Heart1987Fatal Attraction1987Full Metal Jacket1987Moonstruck1987Raising Arizona1987RoboCop1987Akira1988Mississippi Burning1988Salaam Bombay!1988The Vanishing1988Do the Right Thing1989Drugstore Cowboy1989Godzilla vs. Biollante1989Leviathan1989Santa Sangre1989Sweetie1989The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover1989King of New York1990Wild at Heart1990Barton Fink1991Cape Fear1991Delicatessen1991Life Is Sweet1991Naked Lunch1991The Doors1991The Silence of the Lambs1991Bad Lieutenant1992Damage1992Jamon Jamon1992Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me1992Cronos1993Menace II Society1993Exotica1994Little Odessa1994Once Were Warriors1994Rebels of the Neon God1994Shallow Grave1994The Mask1994Three Colors: White1994Clockers1995Crumb1995Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life1995Kids1995Se7en1995The Blade1995Crash1996Deep Crimson1996Fargo1996Pusher1996The Funeral1996Trainspotting1996Cure1997Gummo1997Nil by Mouth1997Princess Mononoke1997The Eel1997The Lost World: Jurassic Park1997Bullet Ballet1998Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas1998Godzilla1998Happiness1998High Art1998Fight Club1999Ratcatcher1999Rosetta1999Titus1999Amores Perros2000Final Destination2000Requiem for a Dream2000Fat Girl2001Hannibal2001Ichi the Killer2001Intacto2001L.I.E.2001Sexy Beast2001The Piano Teacher200128 Days Later2002Gangs of New York2002Irreversible2002Mango Yellow2002Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones2002Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance2002Gozu2003House of 1000 Corpses2003Monster2003Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl2003Save the Green Planet!2003The Cooler2003Grizzly Man2005Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire2005Saw II2005Sin City2005The Beat That My Heart Skipped2005The Proposition2005The Wayward Cloud2005War of the Worlds2005Apocalypto2006Destiny2006The Host200628 Weeks Later2007No Country for Old Men2007Sunshine2007The Mist2007There Will Be Blood2007[REC]2007Gomorrah2008Martyrs2008Mesrine: Killer Instinct2008The Chaser2008The Hurt Locker2008Twilight2008Antichrist2009Dogtooth2009Fantastic Mr. Fox2009The Lovely Bones2009Thirst2009Biutiful2010Black Swan2010I Saw the Devil2010The Man from Nowhere2010The Yellow Sea2010Drive2011Shame2011The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo2011Life of Pi2012The Cabin in the Woods2012The Dark Knight Rises2012The Master2012Wolf Children2012Blue Is the Warmest Color2013Elysium2013Evil Dead2013Only God Forgives2013Prisoners2013Stoker2013The Conjuring2013The Wolf of Wall Street2013A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night2014As Above, So Below2014Boy & the World2014Guardians of the Galaxy2014Hard to Be a God2014Leviathan2014Nightcrawler2014The Babadook2014Under the Skin2014Wild Tales2014It Follows2015The Revenant2015Asura: The City of Madness2016Creepy2016Hacksaw Ridge2016The Neon Demon2016The Witch2016Alien: Covenant2017Good Time2017Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 22017It2017Mudbound2017Okja2017Raw2017The Killing of a Sacred Deer2017The Shape of Water2017War for the Planet of the Apes2017Annihilation2018Climax2018Isle of Dogs2018Mandy2018The Favourite2018Tumbbad2018Honeyland2019It Chapter Two2019Parasite2019The Lighthouse2019The Painted Bird2019Uncut Gems2019Another Round2020Beasts Clawing at Straws2020Dinner in America2020Possessor2020Promising Young Woman2020Black Widow2021Cruella2021Fear Street: 19782021Fear Street: 19942021Jujutsu Kaisen 02021Mad God2021Nightmare Alley2021The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It2021Titane2021All Quiet on the Western Front2022Babylon2022Barbarian2022Kantara2022Nope2022Pearl2022The Menu2022Thor: Love and Thunder2022Triangle of Sadness2022Where the Crawdads Sing2022X2022Five Nights at Freddy's2023Killers of the Flower Moon2023Poor Things2023Saltburn2023The Boy and the Heron2023The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes2023The Iron Claw2023The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon2023To Catch a Killer2023Alien: Romulus2024Beetlejuice Beetlejuice2024Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga2024Gladiator II2024Lisa Frankenstein2024Longlegs2024Misericordia2024Nosferatu2024Smile 22024The Brutalist2024The Girl with the Needle2024The Order2024The Substance202428 Years Later2025Afternoons of Solitude2025Bring Her Back2025Captain America: Brave New World2025Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle2025Die My Love2025Final Destination Bloodlines2025Jurassic World Rebirth2025Magellan2025Marty Supreme2025No Other Choice2025Sinners2025The Long Walk2025The Ugly Stepsister2025Urchin2025"Wuthering Heights"202628 Years Later: The Bone Temple2026Evil Dead Burn2026Send Help2026