Sightlines · a concept

voyant

the protagonist who registers rather than acts.

On screen: a watcher/endurer, not an agent.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DBicycle Thieves1948DEuropa '511952DGermany, Year Zero1948DL'Avventura1960DLa Notte1961DStromboli1950DJourney to Italy1954DLate Spring1949DUmberto D.1952

Across the collection

J'Accuse1919The Crowd1928Vampyr1932High Sierra1941Sullivan's Travels1941Day of Wrath1943A Canterbury Tale1944Dead of Night1945I Know Where I'm Going!1945Rome, Open City1945Beauty and the Beast1946It's a Wonderful Life1946Paisan1946Shoeshine1946Odd Man Out1947The Heiress1949The Breaking Point1950The Gunfighter1950Diary of a Country Priest1951The River1951I Vitelloni1953Tokyo Story1953Godzilla1954La Strada1954Sansho the Bailiff1954Kiss Me Deadly1955Ordet1955Pather Panchali1955The Big Combo1955Night and Fog1956Pyaasa1957Rio, Northern Zone1957Wild Strawberries1957Elevator to the Gallows1958Hiroshima Mon Amour1959Look Back in Anger1959Pickpocket1959The 400 Blows1959La Dolce Vita1960Shoot the Piano Player1960When a Woman Ascends the Stairs1960A Taste of Honey1961Chronicle of a Summer1961Last Year at Marienbad1961The Innocents1961Through a Glass Darkly1961An Autumn Afternoon1962Carnival of Souls1962Cléo from 5 to 71962Ivan's Childhood1962Knife in the Water1962L'Eclisse1962La Jetée1962Long Day's Journey Into Night1962Vivre Sa Vie1962Muriel, or the Time of Return1963The House Is Black1963The Leopard1963The Silence1963Winter Light1963Charulata1964Hamlet1964Pale Flower1964Red Desert1964The Night of the Iguana1964Woman in the Dunes1964Juliet of the Spirits1965Pierrot le Fou1965Repulsion1965The Pawnbroker1965Andrei Rublev1966Au Hasard Balthazar1966Blow-Up1966Cul-de-sac1966Masculin Féminin1966The Brick and the Mirror1966Mouchette19672001: A Space Odyssey1968Memories of Underdevelopment1968Theorem1968L'Amour fou1969Medea1969Medium Cool1969The Color of Pomegranates1969Five Easy Pieces1970Performance1970The Bird with the Crystal Plumage1970Valerie and Her Week of Wonders1970Wanda1970Bleak Moments1971Death in Venice1971Land of Silence and Darkness1971Murmur of the Heart1971THX 11381971The Go-Between1971Two-Lane Blacktop1971Fata Morgana1972Roma1972Slaughterhouse-Five1972Solaris1972The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes1972The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant1972Amarcord1973Sambizanga1973Sisters1973Soleil O1973The Spirit of the Beehive1973Touki Bouki1973Ali: Fear Eats the Soul1974Alice in the Cities1974Badlands1974Céline and Julie Go Boating1974The Conversation1974The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser1974India Song1975Mirror1975Picnic at Hanging Rock1975Shampoo1975The Passenger1975Heart of Glass1976Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles1976The Man Who Fell to Earth19763 Women1977Eraserhead1977News from Home1977Stroszek1977The Ascent1977The Last Wave1977Days of Heaven1978Killer of Sheep1978Watership Down1978Kummatty1979Nosferatu the Vampyre1979Quadrophenia1979Scum1979Stalker1979The Black Stallion1979The Onion Field1979The Shining1980Kisapmata1981My Dinner with Andre1981Fast Times at Ridgemont High1982Local Hero1983Meantime1983Nostalgia1983Rumble Fish1983Sans Soleil1983Stranger Than Paradise1983Sugar Cane Alley1983Testament1983The Big Chill1983Choose Me1984Memories of Prison1984Nineteen Eighty-Four1984Once Upon a Time in America1984Paris, Texas1984Stranger Than Paradise1984The Killing Fields1984A Zed & Two Noughts1985Come and See1985Betty Blue1986Down by Law1986Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling1986The Green Ray1986The Sacrifice1986Au Revoir les Enfants1987La Bamba1987The Dead1987Where Is The Friend's House?1987Wings of Desire1987Chocolat1988Damnation1988Grave of the Fireflies1988Landscape in the Mist1988My Neighbor Totoro1988A City of Sadness1989Decalogue I1989For All Mankind1989Godzilla vs. Biollante1989Mystery Train1989The Seventh Continent1989sex, lies, and videotape1989American Dream1990Days of Being Wild1990Dreams1990Metropolitan1990A Brighter Summer Day1991Daughters of the Dust1991Defending Your Life1991My Own Private Idaho1991Naked Lunch1991Only Yesterday1991Raise the Red Lantern1991The Double Life of Véronique1991Lessons of Darkness1992Porco Rosso1992The Crying Game1992Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me1992Faraway, So Close!1993Sankofa1993Sonatine1993Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould1993Three Colors: Blue1993Before the Rain1994Exotica1994Hoop Dreams1994Rebels of the Neon God1994Satantango1994Three Colors: Red1994Three Colors: White1994A Borrowed Life1995Fallen Angels1995Ghost in the Shell1995Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life1995Kicking and Screaming1995Safe1995Bottle Rocket1996Lone Star1996Chasing Amy1997Fireworks1997Happy Together1997Taste of Cherry1997The End of Violence1997Bullet Ballet1998Flowers of Shanghai1998High Art1998The Last Days of Disco1998The Thin Red Line1998After Life1999Belfast, Maine1999Eyes Wide Shut1999Girl, Interrupted1999Humanité1999Julien Donkey-Boy1999Ratcatcher1999Ride with the Devil1999101 Reykjavik2000Beau Travail2000Before Night Falls2000Code Unknown2000Final Destination2000Jesus' Son2000Songs from the Second Floor2000The Virgin Suicides2000Yi Yi2000You Can Count on Me2000Batang West Side2001Fat Girl2001Ghost World2001La Ciénaga2001Millennium Mambo2001No Man's Land2001Werckmeister Harmonies2001Gerry2002Hukkle2002Morvern Callar2002Russian Ark2002The Gathering Storm2002The Pianist2002Bright Future2003Elephant2003Girl with a Pearl Earring2003Gozu2003Kitchen Stories2003Last Life in the Universe2003Laurel Canyon2003Lost in Translation2003Memories of Murder2003Noi the Albino2003Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring2003The Station Agent2003Birth2004Evolution of a Filipino Family2004Tropical Malady2004Caché2005Jarhead2005Me and You and Everyone We Know2005Saw II2005The Beat That My Heart Skipped2005The Death of Mr. Lazarescu2005The New World2005The Wayward Cloud2005Inland Empire2006Marie Antoinette2006Syndromes and a Century2006Control2007No Country for Old Men2007Silent Light2007Sunshine2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford2007The Darjeeling Limited2007Zodiac2007Che: Part Two2008Martyrs2008Still Walking2008Summer Hours2008Synecdoche, New York2008The Curious Case of Benjamin Button2008The Headless Woman2008Tokyo Sonata2008Wendy and Lucy2008(500) Days of Summer2009A Single Man2009Moon2009Polytechnique2009The Lovely Bones2009The White Ribbon2009Enter the Void2010Flipped2010Police, Adjective2010TRON: Legacy2010The American2010The Secret World of Arrietty2010Tiny Furniture2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives2010Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 22011Meek's Cutoff2011Melancholia2011Once Upon a Time in Anatolia2011Oslo, August 31st2011The Artist2011The Iron Lady2011The Tree of Life2011The Turin Horse2011We Need to Talk About Kevin2011Amour2012Beyond the Hills2012Like Someone in Love2012Post Tenebras Lux2012Sinister2012Wolf Children2012Before Midnight2013Ida2013Inside Llewyn Davis2013Nebraska2013Only God Forgives2013Stoker2013The Grandmaster2013The Great Beauty2013The Secret Life of Walter Mitty2013The Wind Rises2013A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence2014Boy & the World2014Boyhood2014Enemy2014From What Is Before2014Hard to Be a God2014Leviathan2014Phoenix2014The Amazing Spider-Man 22014The Fault in Our Stars2014Under the Skin2014When Marnie Was There201445 Years2015Cemetery of Splendor2015Dheepan2015Son of Saul2015The Assassin2015After the Storm2016Certain Women2016Doctor Strange2016Kaili Blues2016Me Before You2016Moonlight2016Personal Shopper2016Silence2016The World of Us2016Before I Fall2017Loveless2017Okja2017War for the Planet of the Apes2017Zama2017A Star Is Born2018At Eternity's Gate2018Burning2018First Reformed2018I Want to Eat Your Pancreas2018Long Day's Journey Into Night2018Mandy2018Never Look Away2018Roma2018The Rider2018Wildlife2018Beanpole2019Honeyland2019Portrait of a Lady on Fire2019The Painted Bird2019All the Bright Places2020Dear Comrades!2020Last and First Men2020Marona's Fantastic Tale2020Palm Springs2020Sound of Metal2020Bergman Island2021Drive My Car2021Last Night in Soho2021Mad God2021Memoria2021Petite Maman2021Petrov's Flu2021The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It2021The Green Knight2021The Hand of God2021The Worst Person in the World2021Aftersun2022EO2022Smile2022The Banshees of Inisherin2022The Black Phone2022The Fabelmans2022The Quiet Girl2022White Noise2022All of Us Strangers2023Beau Is Afraid2023Five Nights at Freddy's2023Monster2023Past Lives2023Perfect Days2023Priscilla2023The Boy and the Heron2023The Iron Claw202318x2 Beyond Youthful Days2024A Real Pain2024Challengers2024Civil War2024Dreams2024I Saw the TV Glow2024Late Night with the Devil2024Sing Sing2024Smile 22024Twisters2024We Live in Time2024Blue Moon2025Cactus Pears2025Father Mother Sister Brother2025Kontinental '252025My Father's Shadow2025Peter Hujar's Day2025Pompei: Below the Clouds2025Romería2025Sorry, Baby2025Sound of Falling2025The Conjuring: Last Rites2025The Currents2025The Ice Tower2025The Little Sister2025The Long Walk2025The Love That Remains2025The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo2025The Voice of Hind Rajab2025Thunderbolts*2025Train Dreams2025Two Prosecutors2025Backrooms2026Blue Heron2026Dry Leaf2026Girls Like Girls2026In Waves2026Remarkably Bright Creatures2026Silent Friend2026The Death of Robin Hood2026