KITCHEN SINK

Alison Maclean (New Zealand, 1989), 14 minutes, 35 mm, b/w Production credits and cast Writer/Director Producer Photography Art director Editor Sound design and mix Music The Woman The Man Schoolgirl Alsion Maclean Bridget Ikin. Hibiscus Films Stuart Dryburgh Grant Major David Coulsen John McKay & Chris Burt The Headless Chickens Theresa Healey Peter Tait Annagreta Christian Festivals and awards include: Selection for competition at the Cannes Film Festival, 1989 Certificate of Merit, Melbourne Film Festival, 1989 Audience Award for Best Short Film, Sydney Film Festival, 1989 Sitges International Film Festival, Spain, 1989 Best Short Film, Listener Film & Television Award, New Zealand, 1989 Best Short Film, Oporto International Film Festival, 1990 Special Jury Award (Short Narrative), Golden Gate Awards, San Francisco, 1990 Alison Maclean Born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1958, Alison Maclean spent much of her childhood in Canada, emigrating to New Zealand with her parents as a teenager. She is a graduate of the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, where she majored in film and sculpture. She now lives in New York, where directing music videos is one of her major activities. Alison Maclean on Kitchen Sink The story came to me in much the same way as events unfold for the woman in the film. I could see this hair sticking out of the plughole and on closer inspec-tion, the story began to emerge and to transform itself in quite a surprising way. It's a dark little fable about fear and desire - about a woman who re-fashions a monster into a man, and finds herself falling for her creation. In some sense I see it as a Pygmalion-type story, with the genders reversed. Stills from Kitchen Sink, written and directed by Alison Maclean

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