After talking for years about her strong wish to direct a movie adaptation of Portland-based author Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, “The Chronology of Water,” a first image of actress Kristen Stewart on set of the movie has been published by Variety, and other entertainment news sites.

In the photo, Stewart, wearing headphones, is seen next to the film’s star, Imogen Poots. Known for her roles in such varied projects as “Twilight,” “Love Lies Bleeding,” “Spencer” and “Happiest Season,” Stewart makes her debut as a feature film director with “The Chronology of Water.” She also co-wrote the screenplay with Andy Mingo, who is married to Yuknavitch.

The cast includes Poots, Thora Birch, Earl Cave, Michael Epp, Susannah Flood, Kim Gordon and Jim Belushi, who has appeared in another project with an Oregon connection, “Growing Belushi,” a TV series about the actor’s southern Oregon cannabis business.

The official synopsis for “The Chronology of Water,” as Variety says, reflects that it’s a story “about turning trauma into art,” as it follows Yuknavitch “from her earliest childhood memories in the Pacific Northwest, through explosive misfires and mistakes, children that almost-were, toxic relationships, art heroes, wins and losses.”

The synopsis also says of the story that it “drifts in the water of Lidia’s memories on her journey to become a professional writer, repossessing her own story by writing one she can live with,” adding that “‘The Chronology of Water’ is an in-depth exploration of sexuality, of creativity, an unflinching stare at all the gory details of having a female body and a sensitive depiction of the emotional vocabulary of youth.”

The Variety article also notes that in a cover story for the publication in January, Stewart announced “that she would refuse to make another movie until ‘The Chronology of Water’ was finished.”

“The Chronology of Water” wrapped in July after filming for six weeks in Latvia and Malta, according to Variety. There’s no word yet on when it will open in theaters.

-Source: Oregon Live