Sightlines · a concept

people are missing

no unified present people; the people are absent, to be invented.

On screen: the political passing through the absence/impossibility of "a people.".

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

Across the collection

The Great Dictator1940La Terra Trema1949Night and Fog1956Pyaasa1957Rio, Northern Zone1957Cruel Story of Youth1960The Cloud-Capped Star1960Chronicle of a Summer1961Salvatore Giuliano1962The House Is Black1963I Am Cuba1964São Paulo, Incorporated1965The Secret Formula1965King of Hearts1966Masculin Féminin1966The Brick and the Mirror1966La Chinoise1967The Red and the White1967Memories of Underdevelopment1968Night of the Living Dead1968Easy Rider1969Invasion1969Medea1969The Decameron1971Silent Running1972State of Siege1972Belladonna of Sadness1973Sambizanga1973Soleil O1973The Spirit of the Beehive1973Touki Bouki1973Lenny1974The Parallax View1974Dog Day Afternoon1975Nashville1975The Stepford Wives1975The Travelling Players1975Female Trouble1976Stroszek1977The Ascent1977Hitler: A Film from Germany1978The Tree of Wooden Clogs1978Ballad of Tara1979Life of Brian1979Quadrophenia1979The Man Who Stole the Sun1979Heaven's Gate1980The Gods Must Be Crazy1980Kisapmata1981Missing1982Born in Flames1983El Norte1983Sugar Cane Alley1983The Big Chill1983Macross: Do You Remember Love?1984Memories of Prison1984My Beautiful Laundrette1985Shoah1985She's Gotta Have It1986La Bamba1987Repentance1987Withnail & I1987A City of Sadness1989American Dream1990A Brighter Summer Day1991Boyz n the Hood1991Daughters of the Dust1991Night on Earth1991Once Upon a Time in China1991Paris Is Burning1991Indochine1992Malcolm X1992Police Story 3: Super Cop1992Porco Rosso1992The Last of the Mohicans1992Blue1993Farewell My Concubine1993Menace II Society1993Naked1993Sankofa1993Hoop Dreams1994Satantango1994A Borrowed Life1995Basquiat1996Kolya1996Lone Star1996Swallowtail Butterfly1996The Rock1996When We Were Kings1996Gummo1997Princess Mononoke1997The Full Monty1997The Idiots1998Boys Don't Cry1999Buena Vista Social Club1999Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai1999Ride with the Devil1999Before Night Falls2000Code Unknown2000Joint Security Area2000Love & Basketball2000Peppermint Candy2000Traffic2000Batang West Side2001Hedwig and the Angry Inch2001The Devil's Backbone2001Y Tu Mamá También2001Bloody Sunday2002Bowling for Columbine2002Bus 1742002City of God2002Gangs of New York2002Rabbit-Proof Fence2002Carandiru2003Dogville2003Good Bye, Lenin!2003La Commune (Paris, 1871)2003Memories of Murder2003Save the Green Planet!2003Evolution of a Filipino Family2004D.E.B.S.2005Syriana2005Children of Men2006Letters from Iwo Jima2006Marie Antoinette2006The Host20064 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days2007Cloud2007I Am Legend2007Che: Part Two2008Gomorrah2008A Prophet2009District 92009Fish Tank2009The White Ribbon2009Biutiful2010Green Zone2010Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 12010Prince of Broadway2010TRON: Legacy2010The Secret World of Arrietty2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives2010Le Havre2011Django Unchained2012The Hunger Games2012Wolf Children2012Zero Dark Thirty2012Inside Llewyn Davis2013Nebraska2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire2013A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night2014Boy & the World2014Dawn of the Planet of the Apes2014From What Is Before2014Hard to Be a God2014Leviathan2014Phoenix2014The Grand Budapest Hotel2014The Imitation Game2014Two Days, One Night2014Cemetery of Splendor2015Dheepan2015The Big Short2015Certain Women2016Rogue One: A Star Wars Story2016Visaranai2016A Taxi Driver2017Get Out2017Hostiles2017Loveless2017Mudbound2017The Florida Project2017The Greatest Showman2017The Other Side of Hope2017War for the Planet of the Apes2017Wind River2017At Eternity's Gate2018Black Panther2018Burning2018Capernaum2018Roma2018Shoplifters2018Bacurau2019Brexit: The Uncivil War2019The Painted Bird2019Us2019David Byrne's American Utopia2020Dear Comrades!2020Last and First Men2020One Night in Miami...2020tick, tick... BOOM!2021Argentina 19852022Kantara2022Suzume2022The Black Phone2022The Quiet Girl2022Killers of the Flower Moon2023The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes2023A Real Pain2024Sing Sing2024The Fall Guy202428 Years Later2025Magellan2025My Father's Shadow2025One Battle After Another2025Peter Hujar's Day2025Romería2025The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo2025The Secret Agent2025The Testament of Ann Lee2025The Voice of Hind Rajab2025Weapons2025Yes202528 Years Later: The Bone Temple2026De Gaulle: Liberté2026Our Land2026