Kristen Stewart Says the Directorial Debut is “about Incest and Periods.”

Kristen Stewart has a lot to say about her feature film directorial debut, The chronology of water.

“My film is about incest and periods and a woman forcibly taking over her voice and her body, and it’s hard to watch sometimes… but it’s going to be a hell of a thrill,” Stewart, 34, said PORTER in an interview published on Monday, May 6th. “And I think that’s commercial, but I don’t think I have any idea what that means. I think people would like to see that, but then… I think maybe people want to see movies about Jesus and dogs.”

Related to Lidia YuknavitchIn the 2011 memoir of the same name, the story “explores issues of gender, sexuality, violence and family through the eyes of a lifelong swimmer turned artist,” according to a summary of the book.

The synopsis continues: “In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces the impact of extreme grief on a young woman’s evolving sexuality, which some have described as untraditional because of her appeal to both men and women. At the same time, she develops into a writer and takes the narrator on a journey of addiction, self-destruction and ultimately survival, which ultimately ends in the form of love and motherhood.

Stewart told PORTER The The chronology of water is filmed in Latvia. “It’s a young film culture there,” she explained. “Look, I care about the way we make films here [in the U.S.], but I needed some kind of radical distance. I’m not a director yet. I have to make a student film. I can’t do that here.”

As an artist he is dusk star wants to think outside the box. “[There’s a] I think we can check these little boxes and then abolish the patriarchy and how we’re all made of it,” she said. “It’s easy for them to say, ‘Look what we’re doing.’ We do Maggie Gyllenhaal’s movie! We do Margot Robbie‘s movie!’ And you’re like, ‘Okay, cool.'”

Although Stewart said she is “in awe of these women,” it feels “wrong” to honor their work in such broad, vague terms.

“If we congratulate each other for broadening our perspective when we haven’t really done enough, then we stop broadening the perspective,” she added. “As an actor, I am called upon to represent other people’s visions. You become greedy; It feels good to be called… even if you don’t love it. I like that as I get older, I would much rather align my experiences with results-oriented goals rather than just saying, “This will feel good for me now.””

Stewart first announced her directorial debut The chronology of water at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. After years of struggling to make it, Stewart said diversity in January that it would no longer trade until it secured funding.

“I’m going to do this movie before I ever work for anyone else,” she told the outlet at the time. “Yes, I will give up the sex business. I won’t make another film until I make this film. I will definitely tell you that. I think that will get things going.”