St Vincent scores new Kristen Stewart short film
Kristen Stewart and Annie Clark's directorial debuts will both premiere at Sundance Film Festival
Yesterday Sundance Film Festival added 68 short films to its 2017 festival lineup, and among them was Come Swim, the directorial debut by Twilight star Kristen Stewart. One of the first people to share the news was Annie Clark, aka St Vincent, who revealed via Twitter that she has composed music for the film. St Vincent's self-titled fourth album was one of our Albums of the Year in 2014 – read our interview with Clark from August 2014 here.
I composed the soundtrack for Kristen Stewart's new short film Come Swim, which is also premiering at Sundance! https://t.co/ZE7rUmO206
— St. Vincent (@st_vincent) December 6, 2016
Stewart’s short, described as “a diptych of one man’s day, half impressionist and half realist portraits,” plays in Refinery29’s Shatterbox Anthology, a new series focused on female-led filmmaking. She gave some more insight into the project while speaking to Film Comment’s podcast in October. “It’s super sound-orientated and I love it! And that’s a great pleasure,” Stewart told FC's Violet Lucca. “I don’t know if it’s good, but I can tell you, even if you don’t like it, nobody can say it’s not well done. It’s pretty personal and I’ve never been happier doing anything.”
St Vincent’s own directorial debut, a short film that’s part of all-female horror anthology XX, will also premerie at Sundance.. The three other directors creating segments for XX are Karyn Kusama (The Invitation, Girlfight), Jennifer Lynch (Surveillance, Chained), and Jovanka Vuckovic (The Captured Bird).
“The films are very different,” Kusama said on the Killer POV podcast, “but there all concern overriding anxieties about female-ness to a degree.”
Sundance Film Festival 2017 runs 19-29 January