Sightlines · a concept

acte de parole

speech as autonomous act (telling/fabulation/testimony).

On screen: a "legending" or testimonial voice, not dialogue.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DChronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach1968

Across the collection

The Ox-Bow Incident1943Ordet1955Chronicle of a Summer1961The Color of Pomegranates1969Nashville1975The Travelling Players1975The Gods Must Be Crazy1980Reds1981Sans Soleil1983Shoah1985The Breakfast Club1985Au Revoir les Enfants1987Good Morning, Vietnam1987Wings of Desire1987Dead Poets Society1989Prospero's Books1991Sling Blade1996Waiting for Guffman1997After Life1999Before Night Falls2000A.I. Artificial Intelligence2001Y Tu Mamá También2001Hukkle2002Dogville2003Million Dollar Baby2004Letters from Iwo Jima2006The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford2007True Grit2010The Tree of Life2011The Turin Horse2011Official Secrets2019Argentina 1985202228 Years Later2025Frankenstein2025Peter Hujar's Day2025Train Dreams2025