- 1 minute – HD video – Color
- My role: Director/Cinematographer/Editor
The speaker reflects on being a shrinking dot—an image in a mirror, pondering what the future holds. Based on a poem by Brianna Kratz.
Director’s statement
The first film in the Lens + Ink series, this was the result of a collaboration with the poet Brianna Kratz. In translating the poem to film, we embraced montage as a way to extend the narrative and complicate the source text.
Credits
- Written and Performed by Brianna Kratz
- Directed by Andrew Gingerich
Walking away from your car
By Brianna Kratz
- feels familiar. Feels right.
- As if seeing you off
- on your travels
- makes sense in the cosmic book
- of some sort of fate.
- I turn around in spirals,
- glimpsing home,
- glimpsing you,
- buildings,
- your car,
- until you drive off and away.
- I’m a shrinking dot
- in your rearview mirror,
- giving you some reminder
- of what was worth the drive.