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
00:00:26 Then the rain started.
00:00:42 Our ceilings passively welcomed the constant drops
00:00:57 No amount of technology, or human effort could resist...
00:01:11 Nothing we could do about it.
00:01:25 Wood turned porous
00:01:42 Disease spread, our bodies forced to encounter incurable pestilence...
00:01:56 Paper dissolved to pulp under the merciless torrent
00:02:19 Everything we knew had to be re-invented.
00:03:21 Ironically, our bodies suddenly became useful again.
00:03:39 infecting themselves into all too vulnerable tissue that couldn't lie...
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.
00:06:55 Communication transformed into religion
00:07:12 submission was a fine acceptance on the part of the more permeable flash.
00:07:25 Sacrifice at last, became a sacred ceremony.
00:07:47 Life was surgical truth.
00:09:08 I LOVED YOU
00:10:02 Everyone knows it.
00:10:15 Each phrase gets harder and harder to let out.
00:10:33 We are nearing the end
00:10:43 Soon it won't even matter who scarred their messages onto each other.
00:11:05 We were the city without windows.
00:11:28 Ripped by Smoyl from original HARDSUBBED DVD.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed59
Dialogue density4.5 lines / min
First line00:00:06
Final line00:11:28
Production Record
DirectorKarim Hussain, Julien Fonfrede
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes182