Getaway

A cou­ple sip cof­fee while pon­der­ing their future. A poem by Bri­an­na Kratz, after Louise Glück­’s The Bal­cony.

Director’s statement

This is the fourth film in the Lens + Ink series, a col­lab­o­ra­tion with the poet Bri­an­na Kratz. This poem lifts the first line from Louise Glück­’s The Bal­cony and ren­ders an atmos­pher­ic por­trait of a cou­ple at an inflec­tion point in their relationship.

With this adap­ta­tion, we strove to retain the mys­tery of Bri­an­na’s orig­i­nal poem, while com­pli­cat­ing the char­ac­ters and nar­ra­tive the text presents.

Getaway

By Bri­an­na Kratz
After Louise Glück’s “The Balcony” 

• It was a night like this, at the end of summer.
• We had sat in your uncle’s apartment 
• for three days? Or maybe just hours.

• Even when we talked about traffic
• or lemon­ade, we were thinking
• of the green that set­tled on the street
• and the tor­na­do watch.

• Soon we would be storm chasers
• soaked and adven­tur­ing to points
• on our own compasses.

• And the dish­es piled up in the sink
• because you couldn’t work the dishwasher
• and I said, “Why bother?”

• From upstairs, a tele­vised concert.
• Some­one singing about heartbreak
• we would nev­er know.

Credits

• Writ­ten by Bri­an­na Kratz 
• Direct­ed by Andrew Gin­gerich 
• Per­formed by Nor­ma Gin­gerich, with David Gin­gerich and Gladys Nel­son
• Pro­duc­tion assis­tance from Evan Riffe

Music:

• Phase Three by Fatal Injection 
• My Favorite Regret by Josh Wood­ward

All music is licensed under the Cre­ative Com­mons Attri­bu­tion 4.0 license.

Sound effects by Freesound​.org users all­re­al­sound, lwdick­ens, aldenroth2, strathamer, PhilllCh­abbb, gyzhor, and Splice­Sound licensed under the Cre­ative Com­mons 0 License. 

Screenings

• ZEBRA Poet­ry Film Fes­ti­val – Munich, Ger­many
• Art Visu­als & Poet­ry Film Fes­ti­val – Vien­na, Austria