Sightlines · a concept

out of field absolute

a disturbing presence that *insists* rather than exists: the open whole/duration/spirit.

On screen: a sense of something beyond the frame that can't be located in space.

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

Across the collection

J'Accuse1919All Quiet on the Western Front1930Mädchen in Uniform1931Tabu: A Story of the South Seas1931The Testament of Dr. Mabuse1933The Lady Vanishes1938Only Angels Have Wings1939The Rules of the Game1939Foreign Correspondent1940Rebecca194049th Parallel1941Cat People1942Heaven Can Wait1943Lifeboat1944I Know Where I'm Going!1945Great Expectations1946Brighton Rock1948Criss Cross1949The Queen of Spades1949They Live by Night1949The Gunfighter1950From Here to Eternity1953Summer with Monika1953The War of the Worlds1953Godzilla1954Kiss Me Deadly195519841956A Man Escaped1956Forbidden Planet1956The Searchers1956Night of the Demon1957The Incredible Shrinking Man1957Ben-Hur1959Lola1961The Innocents1961Carnival of Souls1962Cléo from 5 to 71962The Trial1962Lord of the Flies1963The Birds1963Hamlet1964São Paulo, Incorporated1965The Ipcress File1965Cul-de-sac1966Seconds1966The Brick and the Mirror1966Wavelength1967Invasion1969Duel1971Klute1971Murmur of the Heart1971The Phantom of Liberty1974Jaws1975Three Days of the Condor1975All the President's Men1976The Tenant1976Close Encounters of the Third Kind1977Jabberwocky1977Halloween1978The Tree of Wooden Clogs1978Watership Down1978The Man Who Stole the Sun1979The Last Metro1980Kisapmata1981Fanny and Alexander1982White Dog1982Local Hero1983Silkwood1983Testament1983The Big Chill1983The Right Stuff1983Ghostbusters1984Nineteen Eighty-Four1984After Hours1985Good Morning, Vietnam1987Landscape Suicide1987A City of Sadness1989House Party1990Metropolitan1990Nikita1990A Brighter Summer Day1991One False Move1992Porco Rosso1992Blue1993Short Cuts1993Before the Rain1994Exotica1994Hoop Dreams1994The War1994Kicking and Screaming1995Outbreak1995Basquiat1996Breaking the Waves1996The Arrival1996Cure1997Funny Games1997Enemy of the State1998Last Night1998The Last Days of Disco1998The Truman Show1998Buena Vista Social Club1999One Day in September1999Ride with the Devil1999The Blair Witch Project1999The Insider1999Love & Basketball2000Yi Yi2000You Can Count on Me2000Fat Girl2001La Ciénaga2001Werckmeister Harmonies2001Signs2002Noi the Albino2003Birth2004Evolution of a Filipino Family2004Me and You and Everyone We Know2005Syriana2005Children of Men2006Marie Antoinette2006No Country for Old Men2007The Mist2007[REC]2007Che: Part Two2008Cloverfield2008Extraordinary Stories2008The Chaser2008The Headless Woman2008Tokyo Sonata2008A Single Man2009The Lovely Bones2009The White Ribbon2009The Secret World of Arrietty2010Contagion2011From Up on Poppy Hill2011Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol2011The Artist2011The Darkest Hour2011The Kid with a Bike2011The Turin Horse2011Beyond the Hills2012Post Tenebras Lux2012Sinister2012The Cabin in the Woods2012Captain Phillips2013Enemy2013Evil Dead2013Tangerines2013The Conjuring2013The Wind Rises2013As Above, So Below2014From What Is Before2014Godzilla2014Hard to Be a God2014Leviathan2014Two Days, One Night2014Carol2015Dheepan2015It Follows2015Son of Saul2015Graduation2016Personal Shopper2016Rogue One: A Star Wars Story2016Silence2016Visaranai2016Dunkirk2017The Lego Batman Movie2017I Want to Eat Your Pancreas2018The Guilty2018To All the Boys I've Loved Before2018Tumbbad2018Wildlife2018Alita: Battle Angel2019Five Feet Apart2019All the Bright Places2020Enola Holmes2020Last and First Men2020Promising Young Woman2020Summer of 852020The Invisible Man2020Mad God2021Memoria2021The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It2021Barbarian2022Don't Worry Darling2022Enola Holmes 22022Nope2022Smile2022Suzume2022The Black Phone2022The Quiet Girl2022Barbie2023Beau Is Afraid2023Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One2023Priscilla2023The Zone of Interest2023Carry-On2024Drawing Closer2024Flow2024Heretic2024Longlegs2024Nosferatu2024September 52024Smile 22024The Seed of the Sacred Fig2024Twisters2024Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle2025Final Destination Bloodlines2025If I Had Legs I'd Kick You2025Sirāt2025Sorry, Baby2025The Conjuring: Last Rites2025The Fantastic 4: First Steps2025The Long Walk2025The Voice of Hind Rajab2025Wicked: For Good2025Backrooms2026Disclosure Day2026Dry Leaf2026Spider-Man: Brand New Day2026The Odyssey2026