It Was All Too Easy

She finds it eas­i­er to escape alone than to remain togeth­er. A film based on a poem by Bri­an­na Kratz.

Director’s statement

This is the third film in the Lens + Ink series, a col­lab­o­ra­tion with the poet Bri­an­na Kratz. As has been the case with all the Lens + Ink films, we want­ed to make sure that our trans­la­tion from text to screen offered some­thing beyond a lit­er­al inter­pre­ta­tion of the poem. In this case, that added lay­er involves a col­li­sion between night and day.

Credits

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

Music:

• Snow­men by Kai Engel

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

It was all too easy

By Bri­an­na Kratz 

• “It was all too easy,”
• pre­tend­ing I did­n’t love you.
• It was just a mat­ter of rolling
• up my car window
• and smirk­ing at your slack jaw
• leav­ing marks on the glass.
• It was all too easy,
• shut­ting you out
• and lock­ing my diary
• because you nev­er earned my heart
• or its key.
• The hard­est part is explaining
• to myself why the fog is better
• than let­ting your sun­shine burn through it.
• It’s warm here. Soft. Quiet.
• Not qui­et, muffled.
• Mois­ture creep­ing into my eardrums
• and warp­ing the tones.
• It is all too easy to say no
• when the risk is yes.