Insomnia - First Film

Insomnia: by Griffin Baumberger

(feel free to watch in full screen, as the size on this website is deplorable)

inspired by this poem, by Dana Gioia

Insomnia

Now you hear what the house has to say.

Pipes clanking, water running through the dark,

the mortgaged walls shifting in discomfort,

and voices mounting in an endless drone

of small complaints like the sounds of a family   

that year by year you’ve learned how to ignore.

But now you must listen to the things you own,   

all that you’ve worked for these past years,   

the murmur of property, of things in disrepair,   

the moving parts about to come undone,   

and twisting in the sheets remember all

the faces you could not bring yourself to love.

How many voices have escaped you until now,   

the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot,   

the steady accusations of the clock

numbering the minutes no one will mark.   

The terrible clarity this moment brings,   

the useless insight, the unbroken dark.