Sightlines · a concept

the unthought

contact with the unsummonable/incommensurable; the Outside.

On screen: an encounter with what thought cannot think; the undecidable.

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

Across the collection

Stromboli1950Ordet1955Forbidden Planet1956The Incredible Shrinking Man1957Alphaville19652001: A Space Odyssey1968Land of Silence and Darkness1971The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes1972The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser1974Picnic at Hanging Rock1975Apocalypse Now1979Stalker1979Altered States1980Come and See1985The Sacrifice1986Angel Heart1987Landscape Suicide1987Decalogue I1989Barton Fink1991La Belle Noiseuse1991The Crying Game1992Crumb1995Ghost in the Shell1995Cure1997Last Night1998Pi1998Julien Donkey-Boy1999Touching the Void2003A Bittersweet Life2005Caché2005Grizzly Man2005Silent Light2007Sunshine2007Zodiac2007Martyrs2008The Tree of Life2011Beyond the Hills2012Life of Pi2012Prometheus2012The Wind Rises2013Silence2016The Wailing2016Blade Runner 20492017Annihilation2018Memoria2021Everything Everywhere All at Once2022Thirteen Lives2022Queer2024La Grazia2025Project Hail Mary2026