Sightlines · a concept

voyant

the protagonist who registers rather than acts.

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

256 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

Vampyr1932Day of Wrath1943Rome, Open City1945Paisan1946Shoeshine1946Diary of a Country Priest1951I Vitelloni1953Tokyo Story1953La Strada1954Sansho the Bailiff1954Ordet1955Pather Panchali1955Night and Fog1956Wild Strawberries1957Elevator to the Gallows1958Hiroshima Mon Amour1959Look Back in Anger1959Pickpocket1959The 400 Blows1959La Dolce Vita1960Shoot the Piano Player1960A Taste of Honey1961Chronicle of a Summer1961Last Year at Marienbad1961Through a Glass Darkly1961Ivan's Childhood1962Knife in the Water1962L'Eclisse1962La Jetée1962Long Day's Journey Into Night1962Vivre Sa Vie1962Muriel, or the Time of Return1963The Leopard1963The Silence1963Winter Light1963Pale Flower1964Red Desert1964The Night of the Iguana1964Woman in the Dunes1964Juliet of the Spirits1965Pierrot le Fou1965Repulsion1965The Pawnbroker1965Andrei Rublev1966Au Hasard Balthazar1966Blow-Up1966Masculin Féminin1966Mouchette19672001: A Space Odyssey1968Theorem1968Medium Cool1969The Color of Pomegranates1969Five Easy Pieces1970Performance1970Wanda1970Bleak Moments1971Death in Venice1971Land of Silence and Darkness1971THX 11381971The Go-Between1971Two-Lane Blacktop1971Fata Morgana1972Slaughterhouse-Five1972Solaris1972The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant1972Amarcord1973Alice in the Cities1974Badlands1974The Conversation1974The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser1974India Song1975Mirror1975Picnic at Hanging Rock1975The Passenger1975Heart of Glass1976Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles1976The Man Who Fell to Earth19763 Women1977Eraserhead1977Stroszek1977The Last Wave1977Days of Heaven1978Nosferatu the Vampyre1979Stalker1979The Onion Field1979The Shining1980Meantime1983Nostalgia1983Rumble Fish1983Sans Soleil1983Stranger Than Paradise1983Once Upon a Time in America1984Paris, Texas1984Stranger Than Paradise1984The Killing Fields1984A Zed & Two Noughts1985Come and See1985Down by Law1986The Sacrifice1986Au Revoir les Enfants1987Wings of Desire1987Chocolat1988Damnation1988Landscape in the Mist1988Decalogue I1989For All Mankind1989Mystery Train1989The Seventh Continent1989sex, lies, and videotape1989Days of Being Wild1990Dreams1990My Own Private Idaho1991Naked Lunch1991Raise the Red Lantern1991The Double Life of Véronique1991Lessons of Darkness1992Faraway, So Close!1993Sonatine1993Three Colors: Blue1993Satantango1994Three Colors: Red1994Fallen Angels1995Ghost in the Shell1995Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life1995Safe1995Fireworks1997Happy Together1997Taste of Cherry1997The End of Violence1997The Thin Red Line1998After Life1999Eyes Wide Shut1999Humanité1999Julien Donkey-Boy1999Ratcatcher1999101 Reykjavik2000Beau Travail2000Before Night Falls2000Code Unknown2000Jesus' Son2000Songs from the Second Floor2000The Virgin Suicides2000Millennium 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 Agent2003Tropical Malady2004Caché2005Jarhead2005The Death of Mr. Lazarescu2005The New World2005Inland Empire2006No Country for Old Men2007Silent Light2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford2007Zodiac2007Still Walking2008Summer Hours2008Synecdoche, New York2008Tokyo Sonata2008Wendy and Lucy2008Moon2009The White Ribbon2009Enter the Void2010Police, Adjective2010The American2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives2010Meek's Cutoff2011Once Upon a Time in Anatolia2011Oslo, August 31st2011The Iron Lady2011The Tree of Life2011The Turin Horse2011We Need to Talk About Kevin2011Amour2012Ida2013Inside Llewyn Davis2013Only God Forgives2013The Grandmaster2013A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence2014Enemy2014Under the Skin201445 Years2015Cemetery of Splendor2015Son of Saul2015The Assassin2015After the Storm2016Kaili Blues2016Moonlight2016Loveless2017Burning2018First Reformed2018Long Day's Journey Into Night2018Roma2018Beanpole2019Honeyland2019Portrait of a Lady on Fire2019The Painted Bird2019Dear Comrades!2020Drive My Car2021Petrov's Flu2021The Green Knight2021Aftersun2022EO2022The Banshees of Inisherin2022Monster2023Past Lives2023Civil War2024Dreams2024Blue Moon2025Cactus Pears2025Father Mother Sister Brother2025Kontinental '252025My Father's Shadow2025Peter Hujar's Day2025Pompei: Below the Clouds2025Romería2025Sorry, Baby2025Sound of Falling2025The Currents2025The Ice Tower2025The Little Sister2025The Love That Remains2025The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo2025The Voice of Hind Rajab2025Train Dreams2025Two Prosecutors2025Blue Heron2026Dry Leaf2026Silent Friend2026