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.

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

Across the collection

All Quiet on the Western Front1930Tabu: A Story of the South Seas1931The Rules of the Game1939Foreign Correspondent1940Rebecca1940From Here to Eternity195319841956A Man Escaped1956The Searchers1956Ben-Hur1959The Trial1962The Birds1963The Ipcress File1965Seconds1966Duel1971Klute1971Jaws1975Three Days of the Condor1975All the President's Men1976The Tenant1976Close Encounters of the Third Kind1977Halloween1978Fanny and Alexander1982Silkwood1983The Right Stuff1983Good Morning, Vietnam1987Nikita1990Short Cuts1993The War1994Outbreak1995Breaking the Waves1996The Arrival1996Cure1997Funny Games1997Enemy of the State1998The Truman Show1998One Day in September1999The Blair Witch Project1999The Insider1999Werckmeister Harmonies2001Signs2002Noi the Albino2003Syriana2005Children of Men2006No Country for Old Men2007Cloverfield2008The Chaser2008Tokyo Sonata2008The White Ribbon2009Contagion2011Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol2011The Darkest Hour2011The Turin Horse2011Captain Phillips2013Godzilla2014Carol2015It Follows2015Son of Saul2015Graduation2016Dunkirk2017The Guilty2018Alita: Battle Angel2019The Invisible Man2020Nope2022Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One2023The Zone of Interest2023Longlegs2024Nosferatu2024September 52024The Seed of the Sacred Fig2024If I Had Legs I'd Kick You2025Sirāt2025Sorry, Baby2025The Voice of Hind Rajab2025Disclosure Day2026Dry Leaf2026