The Chronology of Water

The Chronology of Water is adapted from the autobiographical novel by Lidia Yuknavitch, a raw-nerved, wounded woman and a survivor. Rather than recounting events in a strictly chronological way, it evokes a youth marked by abuse and addiction, from paternal incest to a spiral of self-destructive excess, culminating in the recovery of peace through writing. This frenetic debut film, directed by queer icon Kristen Stewart, radically refuses to build its narrative through conventional scenes, instead plunging us into a jagged flow of images, sentences, memories, and sensations that translate the violent movements of the difficulty of being.