"The movie is to be eaten alive and re-metabolised and shat out differently, from everyone's perspective, says Kristen Stewart, bracingly. The actor's directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, has been doing the rounds at film festivals, and when we meet in London the reviews are coming in. Stewart knows that this impressionistic, arthouse collage of a film adapted from an experimental memoir about a woman's pain and loss, the elusive nature of memory and the reclamation of desire is not going to be for everyone."
"Stewart first read the book in 2018, while on the set of the movie JT LeRoy. She saw the visual potential in this mass of chaotic images and quickly decided it would be her first feature-length film as director. Forty pages in, I was so rallied and so viciously adamant that nobody else could make the movie but me, she says. It was so physical. So vital. Such a permeating secret."
The Chronology of Water is an impressionistic, arthouse film directed by Kristen Stewart and adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch's experimental memoir about pain, loss, memory, and reclamation of desire. The film assembles chaotic, visceral images to probe the elusive nature of memory and the embodied quality of desire. Festival responses have been mixed and polarised, but Stewart values genuine audience reaction and expresses pride in the film's honesty. Stewart read the book in 2018, recognised its visual potential, and felt compelled to direct the project herself. The source material foregrounds trespass, desires carved into the body, and female embodiment as sites of power.
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