Attachment

Attach­ment is a use­ful but some­times dan­ger­ous trait. Based on a poem by Bri­an­na Kratz.

Director’s statement

This is the sec­ond film in the Lens + Ink series, a col­lab­o­ra­tion with the poet Bri­an­na Kratz. The chal­lenge of this adap­ta­tion was that the source text was very abstract. Intro­duc­ing just the hint of a frame nar­ra­tive helped to give the piece its shape and just a hint of sin­is­ter energy.

Credits

• Writ­ten by Bri­an­na Kratz 
• Per­formed & Direct­ed by Andrew Gin­gerich 

Attachment

By Bri­an­na Kratz 

• Attach­ment is
• sta­t­ic cling
• tying socks to sweaters
• invis­i­bly.
• It’s a dig­i­tized file
• paper­clipped to an e‑mail.
• Attach­ment is
• check­ing in
• even if it’s against the rules
• because you lost the rulebook
• and you were always
• a rebel.
• Glue. And duct tape,
• sand­wiched between
• two big­ger things
• that need to stick together.
• Attach­ment is
• hand­cuff­ing your own happiness
• to some­one else’s.