Sightlines · a concept

the unthought

contact with the unsummonable/incommensurable; the Outside.

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

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

Across the collection

Stromboli1950Ordet1955Alphaville19652001: A Space Odyssey1968Land of Silence and Darkness1971The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser1974Picnic at Hanging Rock1975Apocalypse Now1979Stalker1979Altered States1980Come and See1985The Sacrifice1986Angel Heart1987Decalogue I1989Barton Fink1991Ghost in the Shell1995Cure1997Pi1998Julien Donkey-Boy1999Touching the Void2003A Bittersweet Life2005Caché2005Grizzly Man2005Silent Light2007Zodiac2007The Tree of Life2011Prometheus2012The Wailing2016Blade Runner 20492017Annihilation2018Everything Everywhere All at Once2022Thirteen Lives2022La Grazia2025Project Hail Mary2026