Sightlines · a concept

the archaeological image

the visual as a geological layer to be read.

On screen: an emptied landscape spoken over by an absent past.

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


Deleuze’s own examples

DChronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach1968

Across the collection

A Canterbury Tale1944Night and Fog1956Throne of Blood1957Chronicle of a Summer1961Chimes at Midnight1965The Touch1971Fata Morgana1972Roma1972India Song1975Midway1976The Last Wave1977Hitler: A Film from Germany1978Ballad of Tara1979Sugar Cane Alley1983The Killing Fields1984Shoah1985Landscape Suicide1987The Belly of an Architect1987The Dead1987Wings of Desire1987Landscape in the Mist1988Mystery Train1989Only Yesterday1991Faraway, So Close!1993Sankofa1993A Borrowed Life1995Lone Star1996Buena Vista Social Club1999One Day in September199925th Hour2002Gangs of New York2002Caché2005Cars2006Letters from Iwo Jima2006Extraordinary Stories2008The White Ribbon2009True Grit2010Oslo, August 31st2011The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo2011Cemetery of Splendor2015Hell or High Water2016Mudbound2017La Flor2019Last and First Men2020Bergman Island2021Memoria2021The Black Phone2022The Zone of Interest2023A Real Pain2024Deadpool & Wolverine2024Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes202428 Years Later2025Peter Hujar's Day2025Pompei: Below the Clouds2025Romería2025The Secret Agent2025Our Land2026