A window cleaner finds a building with no windows. Metaphor hits different.
Sam, a window cleaner, arrives at a residential block in Brussels with no windows. In her search for the missing windows, she meets characters who confront her with herself and her loneliness. Gently she breaks through her isolation and starts to interact and connect.
Direction
Pillet's deadpan surrealism turns Brussels into emotional architecture.
Acting
Valcke's wordless isolation speaks volumes through physical stillness.
Director
Line Pillet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Belgian cinema has a particular gift for making the mundane metaphysical—think the Dardenne brothers meets Wes Anderson's sad cousin.
Line Pillet is primarily known as a production designer, which explains why this short treats architecture as a character with its own emotional arc.
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