Kirsten Stewart’s biographical film The Chronology of Water (2025), based on Lidia Yuknavitch's work, captures Yuknavitch’s memory as she navigates trauma, sexuality, love, family, and writing. Memory is presented as ocean waves, colliding and roaring. Until Lidia can come to terms with the water of memory, she will be lost. Here, water takes on new and multiple meanings: life and death, breath and drowning, time and memory, filth and cleansing. The story is based on Lidi

At first glance, the gothic and the noir genre may seem quite mutually distinguishable: the former, with its castles, ghosts, and curses, involves a fear of the past; the latter, set in modern urban landscapes, a fear of the future. Yet, a deep sense of fatalism and impending doom permeates both. They also often feature anguished and troubled protagonists who try to navigate through oneiric, manic worlds. Stylistically, both employ expressionistic elements, at times even to t