Sightlines · a concept

perception image

the image attuned to *how/who* perceives.

On screen: the film foregrounds the act and angle of perception itself.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DMan with a Movie Camera1929

Across the collection

The Lady Eve1941Gaslight1944Dark Passage1947The Cranes Are Flying1957The Hidden Fortress1958Primary1960To Kill a Mockingbird1962I Am Cuba1964Marnie1964Night of the Living Dead1968Medium Cool1969The Swimming Pool1969A Clockwork Orange1971The Tenant1976Halloween1978Dressed to Kill1980E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial1982Body Double1984Manhunter1986The Silence of the Lambs1991My Cousin Vinny1992Strange Days1995A Bug's Life1998Enemy of the State1998Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas1998Pi1998Audition2000Minority Report2002The Bourne Identity2002Girl with a Pearl Earring2003Zatoichi2003The Bourne Supremacy2004The Constant Gardener2005Mad Detective2007The Bourne Ultimatum2007Rise of the Planet of the Apes2011Beasts of the Southern Wild2012The Berlin File2013The Equalizer2014Creed2015Sicario2015Baby Driver2017A Quiet Place2018Saint Maud2020A Quiet Place Part II2021Monster2023Poor Things2023Number 242024The Brutalist2024Blue Heron2026