Sightlines · a concept

the gest

the bodily/theatrical making-visible of relations (Brecht's gestus).

On screen: a posture/attitude that exposes a social or theatrical relation.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DLove Streams1984

Across the collection

The Kid1921The Last Laugh1924Mädchen in Uniform1931My Man Godfrey1936Swing Time1936Grand Illusion1937The Awful Truth1937Holiday1938Destry Rides Again1939The Great Dictator1940The Little Foxes1941Now, Voyager1942To Be or Not to Be1942Heaven Can Wait1943The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943A Canterbury Tale1944Children of Paradise1945Enamorada1946The Best Years of Our Lives1946Kind Hearts and Coronets1949The Queen of Spades1949They Live by Night1949Stage Fright1950Sunset Boulevard1950The Gunfighter1950Ikiru1952Monsieur Hulot's Holiday1953Roman Holiday1953On the Waterfront1954It's Always Fair Weather1955Lola Montès195512 Angry Men19573:10 to Yuma1957Pyaasa1957Rio, Northern Zone1957Sweet Smell of Success1957Throne of Blood1957Mon Oncle1958The Hidden Fortress1958Touch of Evil1958Imitation of Life1959Look Back in Anger1959Pickpocket1959Some Like It Hot1959Breathless1960Cruel Story of Youth1960Shadows1960The Cloud-Capped Star1960The Virgin Spring1960When a Woman Ascends the Stairs1960Lola1961One-Eyed Jacks1961An Autumn Afternoon1962Harakiri1962Sanjuro1962The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner1962Contempt1963Lord of the Flies1963The Pink Panther1963This Sporting Life1963Winter Light1963Band of Outsiders1964Becket1964Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1964Hamlet1964The Night of the Iguana1964Woman in the Dunes1964The Hill1965The Ipcress File1965Au Hasard Balthazar1966Cul-de-sac1966King of Hearts1966The Battle of Algiers1966The Brick and the Mirror1966Tokyo Drifter1966Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?1966Cool Hand Luke1967La Chinoise1967Le Samouraï1967The Red and the White1967Titicut Follies1967Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach1968Faces1968Oliver!1968The Party1968The Producers1968The Swimmer1968Theorem1968Invasion1969L'Amour fou1969Midnight Cowboy1969The Color of Pomegranates1969The Cremator1969They Shoot Horses, Don't They?1969El Topo1970Five Easy Pieces1970Kes1970Le Cercle Rouge1970Tristana1970A Clockwork Orange1971Bleak Moments1971Carnal Knowledge1971Harold and Maude1971Land of Silence and Darkness1971Shaft1971Walkabout1971Last Tango in Paris1972Pink Flamingos1972Silent Running1972Sleuth1972The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes1972The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant1972Belladonna of Sadness1973O Lucky Man!1973Serpico1973Soleil O1973The Mother and the Whore1973The Sting1973A Woman Under the Influence1974Ali: Fear Eats the Soul1974Badlands1974Lenny1974The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser1974The Phantom of Liberty1974Barry Lyndon1975Shampoo1975The Stepford Wives1975Female Trouble1976Grey Gardens1976Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles1976Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom1976The Killing of a Chinese Bookie19763 Women1977Stroszek1977Autumn Sonata1978Killer of Sheep1978The 36th Chamber of Shaolin1978The Deer Hunter1978The Shout1978The Tree of Wooden Clogs1978The Wiz1978All That Jazz1979Ballad of Tara1979Kramer vs. Kramer1979Kummatty1979Quadrophenia1979Scum1979Tess1979The Brood1979The Man Who Stole the Sun1979The Tin Drum1979Woyzeck1979American Gigolo1980Kagemusha1980Pixote1980The Elephant Man1980The Last Metro1980Gallipoli1981Kisapmata1981Mephisto1981Modern Romance1981The French Lieutenant's Woman1981Fast Times at Ridgemont High1982Tootsie1982White Dog1982L'Argent1983Local Hero1983Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence1983Risky Business1983Sugar Cane Alley1983Testament1983Memories of Prison1984Lost in America1985My Beautiful Laundrette1985Pee-wee's Big Adventure1985Tampopo1985Vagabond1985A Better Tomorrow1986A Room with a View1986Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling1986Sid and Nancy1986The Mission1986Babette's Feast1987City on Fire1987La Bamba1987Repentance1987RoboCop1987The Dead1987Wings of Desire1987Withnail & I1987Bull Durham1988Chocolat1988Crossing Delancey1988Distant Voices, Still Lives1988Hairspray1988Landscape in the Mist1988The Unbearable Lightness of Being1988Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser1988A City of Sadness1989Born on the Fourth of July1989Dead Poets Society1989Do the Right Thing1989Santa Sangre1989The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover1989American Dream1990House Party1990Metropolitan1990Daughters of the Dust1991Defending Your Life1991La Belle Noiseuse1991Life Is Sweet1991Night on Earth1991Only Yesterday1991Paris Is Burning1991Raise the Red Lantern1991One False Move1992Orlando1992Police Story 3: Super Cop1992Porco Rosso1992The Crying Game1992Cronos1993Farewell My Concubine1993Moving1993Sankofa1993Shadowlands1993Short Cuts1993The Age of Innocence1993The Piano1993What's Eating Gilbert Grape1993Exotica1994Hoop Dreams1994Shallow Grave1994The Postman1994Crumb1995Kicking and Screaming1995La Haine1995Richard III1995Safe1995Bottle Rocket1996Bound1996Deep Crimson1996Jerry Maguire1996La Promesse1996Secrets & Lies1996Shine1996Sling Blade1996Chasing Amy1997Face/Off1997Fireworks1997Four Days in September1997Good Will Hunting1997Princess Mononoke1997The Full Monty1997Buffalo '661998Flowers of Shanghai1998High Art1998Last Night1998The Big Lebowski1998The Celebration1998The Idiots1998The Last Days of Disco1998All About My Mother1999Being John Malkovich1999Belfast, Maine1999Boys Don't Cry1999Buena Vista Social Club1999Election1999Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai1999Kikujiro1999Ride with the Devil1999Rosetta1999The Green Mile1999Topsy-Turvy1999American Psycho2000Beau Travail2000Best in Show2000Billy Elliot2000Code Unknown2000In the Mood for Love2000Love & Basketball2000Mission: Impossible II2000Songs from the Second Floor2000The Gleaners and I2000You Can Count on Me2000Fat Girl2001Gosford Park2001Hedwig and the Angry Inch2001No Man's Land2001Read My Lips2001The Royal Tenenbaums2001Bowling for Columbine2002Bus 1742002Far from Heaven2002The Bourne Identity2002Dogville2003Girl with a Pearl Earring2003House of 1000 Corpses2003House of Sand and Fog2003Kill Bill: Vol. 12003La Commune (Paris, 1871)2003PTU2003Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl2003Save the Green Planet!2003Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring2003Touching the Void2003Birth2004Collateral2004Maria Full of Grace2004Napoleon Dynamite2004Saving Face2004The Chorus2004The Hidden Blade2004The Merchant of Venice2004Vera Drake2004A History of Violence2005D.E.B.S.2005Grizzly Man2005Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire2005Lady Vengeance2005Me and You and Everyone We Know2005The Beat That My Heart Skipped2005The Death of Mr. Lazarescu2005The Squid and the Whale2005The Wayward Cloud2005Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan2006Little Miss Sunshine2006Marie Antoinette2006The Host20064 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days2007American Gangster2007Control2007I Am Legend2007Michael Clayton2007Shooter2007Che: Part Two2008Quantum of Solace2008Still Walking2008Summer Hours2008The Hurt Locker2008The Wrestler2008Tokyo Sonata2008WALL·E2008Dogtooth2009Fantastic Mr. Fox2009Fish Tank2009Polytechnique200913 Assassins2010Outrage2010Prince of Broadway2010Tiny Furniture2010Drive2011From Up on Poppy Hill2011House of Pleasures2011J. Edgar2011Le Havre2011Pina2011Real Steel2011Shame2011The Artist2011The Intouchables2011The Kid with a Bike2011Beyond the Hills2012Confession of Murder2012Django Unchained2012Killing Them Softly2012Lincoln2012Nameless Gangster2012The Act of Killing2012The Cabin in the Woods2012The Master2012Before Midnight2013Blue Is the Warmest Color2013Frances Ha2013Iron Man 32013Lone Survivor2013Nebraska2013Only God Forgives2013Snowpiercer2013Tangerines2013The Great Beauty2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire2013A Most Violent Year2014A Most Wanted Man2014A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence2014Clouds of Sils Maria2014Creep2014Dawn of the Planet of the Apes2014Force Majeure2014Gone Girl2014Hard to Be a God2014Leviathan2014Phoenix2014The Way He Looks2014Two Days, One Night2014Far from the Madding Crowd2015Kingsman: The Secret Service2015The Assassin2015The Lobster2015Certain Women2016Moonlight2016Personal Shopper2016Silence2016The World of Us2016Toni Erdmann2016Visaranai2016Before I Fall2017Hostiles2017Mudbound2017Okja2017Phantom Thread2017Raw2017The Killing of a Sacred Deer2017The Lego Batman Movie2017The Other Side of Hope2017The Square2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri2017War for the Planet of the Apes2017Wind River2017Black Panther2018Climax2018Roma2018Shadow2018Shoplifters2018Sorry to Bother You2018The Rider2018To All the Boys I've Loved Before2018Wildlife2018Honeyland2019Joker2019La Flor2019Us2019Another Round2020Dinner in America2020Enola Holmes2020Marona's Fantastic Tale2020One Night in Miami...2020Palm Springs2020Promising Young Woman2020Summer of 852020The Man Standing Next2020The Trial of the Chicago 72020Bergman Island2021Black Widow2021Cruella2021Luca2021Mad God2021Nobody2021The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun2021The Worst Person in the World2021Titane2021tick, tick... BOOM!2021A Man Called Otto2022Don't Worry Darling2022Elvis2022Kantara2022The Outfit2022Thor: Love and Thunder2022Triangle of Sadness2022White Noise2022Anyone but You2023Barbie2023Beau Is Afraid2023Dream Scenario2023No Hard Feelings2023Priscilla2023Red, White & Royal Blue2023Saltburn2023The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes2023The Iron Claw2023The Zone of Interest2023A Real Pain2024Anora2024Better Man2024Carry-On2024Challengers2024Heretic2024Late Night with the Devil2024Lisa Frankenstein2024Sing Sing2024Small Things Like These2024Smile 22024The Fall Guy2024We Live in Time2024Woman of the Hour202428 Years Later2025Black Bag2025Blue Moon2025Cactus Pears2025Father Mother Sister Brother2025How to Train Your Dragon2025It Was Just an Accident2025KPop Demon Hunters2025Kontinental '252025Magellan2025Materialists2025Mickey 172025Pillion2025The Housemaid2025The Little Sister2025The Long Walk2025The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo2025The Testament of Ann Lee2025Two Prosecutors2025Wicked: For Good2025Yes202528 Years Later: The Bone Temple2026Citizen Vigilante2026De Gaulle: Liberté2026Evil Dead Burn2026Michael2026Minions & Monsters2026Send Help2026The Devil Wears Prada 22026The Drama2026The Furious2026The Sheep Detectives2026