Sightlines · a concept

the time-image

what appears when the sensory-motor link breaks: time given *directly* (as memory, duration, coexistence); the character becomes a seer.

On screen: action no longer resolves; the protagonist watches/endures; time is felt as itself, not as the measure of movement.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DBicycle Thieves1948DGermany, Year Zero1948DLate Spring1949DUmberto D.1952

Across the collection

Tokyo Story1953Wild Strawberries1957L'Avventura1960Ivan's Childhood1962L'Eclisse1962La Jetée1962Long Day's Journey Into Night1962Muriel, or the Time of Return1963The Leopard1963The Silence1963Winter Light1963Gertrud1964Red Desert1964Woman in the Dunes1964Juliet of the Spirits1965Kwaidan1965Repulsion1965Andrei Rublev1966Performance1970Death in Venice1971Land of Silence and Darkness1971The Go-Between1971The Last Picture Show1971Slaughterhouse-Five1972Solaris1972Amarcord1973Barry Lyndon1975Mirror1975Picnic at Hanging Rock1975The Travelling Players1975Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles1976Days of Heaven1978Nosferatu the Vampyre1979Stalker1979Nostalgia1983Stranger Than Paradise1983Once Upon a Time in America1984Paris, Texas1984Down by Law1986The Sacrifice1986Babette's Feast1987Wings of Desire1987Damnation1988Landscape in the Mist1988Decalogue I1989Mystery Train1989sex, lies, and videotape1989Days of Being Wild1990Dreams1990Three Colors: Blue1993Satantango1994Safe1995The English Patient1996Happy Together1997Taste of Cherry1997Buffalo '661998Meet Joe Black1998After Life1999Humanité1999Before Night Falls2000Peppermint Candy2000Millennium Mambo2001Pulse2001Gerry2002Morvern Callar2002The Hours2002The Pianist2002To Be and to Have2002Bright Future2003Last Life in the Universe2003Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring2003The Station Agent200320462004Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind2004Tropical Malady2004Brokeback Mountain2005The Death of Mr. Lazarescu2005The New World2005Cars2006I'm Not There2007Silent Light2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford2007This Is England2007Hunger2008Tokyo Sonata2008Wendy and Lucy2008Moon2009Police, Adjective2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives2010Meek's Cutoff2011The Tree of Life2011The Turin Horse2011Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy2011We Need to Talk About Kevin2011Amour2012Gravity2013Ida2013The Grandmaster2013A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence201445 Years2015Carol2015Cemetery of Splendor2015After the Storm2016Arrival2016Kaili Blues2016Blade Runner 20492017Long Day's Journey Into Night2018Beanpole2019The Irishman2019Dune2021No Time to Die2021The Green Knight2021Past Lives2023Cactus Pears2025Father Mother Sister Brother2025My Father's Shadow2025Peter Hujar's Day2025Pompei: Below the Clouds2025Sound of Falling2025The Currents2025The Ice Tower2025Train Dreams202528 Years Later: The Bone Temple2026