The City Without Windows
2002 · 13 MIN · IMDB 6.2 · 182 VOTES · DIR. Karim Hussain, Julien Fonfrede
Overview
One day, all the windows in the City disappeared... Then the rain started... No matter what people tried, nothing could stop the water. Soon, disease spread, robbing people's abilities to speak; the endless rain killing all other forms of communication with its acidic torrent. This was a time when dialogue became a new challenge. When everything we knew had to be reinvented. This was also a time, in the midst of a chaotic, decaying environment, when a man tried to cope with the loss of his former lover.
Dialogue Timeline — 59 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:06 THE CITY WITHOUT WINDOWS
00:00:31 No matter what we tried to do, no matter how we tried to protect ourselves
00:00:48 our wood slowly rotted in submission to the downfall.
00:01:06 We were the city without windows...
00:01:25 Wood turned porous
00:01:42 Disease spread, our bodies forced to encounter incurable pestilence...
00:02:01 anything electric having shorted out and stopped so long ago...
00:03:13 Flesh became our only trustworthy mode of communication.
00:03:32 secrets carved into permanent scars that would never be washed away
00:03:50 Strangely, we had become honest again.
00:04:07 for the healing time of a mistake would be far too lengthy to get away with.
00:06:59 dictated by whose flesh would read easier in the eternal night.
00:07:19 Social structure had to be dictated by the moon and the clouds.
00:07:40 A submissive to communication was enough of a reason to live.
00:09:08 I LOVED YOU
00:10:02 Everyone knows it.
00:10:20 Soon like all the rest, I will have to surrender myself...
00:10:36 when everything will be drowned by endless rain...
00:10:59 ...will just dissolve away into the night.
00:11:24 ...from our world.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed59
Dialogue density4.5 lines / min
First line00:00:06
Final line00:11:24
Production Record
DirectorKarim Hussain, Julien Fonfrede
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes182