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 Alison 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 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 inspection; 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. Alison Maclean Born in Ottawa in 1958, Alison moved from Canada to New Zealand in 1972, where she made a number of shorts, including Kitchen Sink, which won eight international awards. Her first feature Crush (1992), starring Marcia Gay Harden, was an official selection at Cannes. Jesus' Son (1999), starring Billy Crudup and Samantha Morton, won the Baby Lion and OCIC Catholic Awards at the Venice Film Festival. Alison has directed TV episodes of Subway Stories, Sex and the City, Carnivale, The L-Word and The Tudors. Her first documentary, Persons of Interest (2003) - co-directed with Tobias Perse - was selected for the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and the International Human Rights Watch Festival. She has lived in New York City since 1992. Filmography Kitchen Sink (short) - director, writer - 1989 Crush (feature film) - director, writer - 1992 Jesus' Son (feature film) - director - 1999 Persons of Interest (documentary) - co-director, producer - 2004 Intolerable (short) - director - 2006 Director of television segments and episodes Seven Deadly Sins, mini-series, one segment ("Greed") - 1993 Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground, one episode ("Honey-Getter") - 1997 Homicide: Life on the Street, one episode ("Birthday") - 1997 Sex and the City, two episodes ("Valley of the Twenty-Something Guys," "Models & Mortals") - 1998 Carnival, one episode ("The River") - 2003 The Tudors, two episodes - 2007 Director of Music Videos Torn by Natalie Imbruglia - 1998 Big Mistake by Natalie Imbruglia - 1998

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