"The Chronology of Water" — Read, Study, & Download The Screenplay by Kristen Stewart
Memory Isn’t Linear. Neither Is Survival.
"The Chronology of Water" is not a biography. It’s a sensory autobiography. Written and directed by Kristen Stewart, this adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir abandons traditional structure in favor of fragments, collisions, and emotional recursion.
This is a screenplay about trauma as texture, memory as rhythm, and identity as something shaped by the body as much as the mind. It moves like water: nonlinear, resistant to containment, carving meaning through repetition rather than revelation.
For writers, this is a rare study in how voice, form, and vulnerability can replace plot mechanics. No clean arcs. No catharsis on cue. Just the brutal poetry of becoming.
"The Chronology of Water" — Educator Resources & Study Guide
Writing the Body, Not the Plot.
"The Chronology of Water" screenplay explodes traditional narrative structure and replaces it with something more dangerous: lived experience. The screenplay teaches how memory operates emotionally rather than chronologically, using fragmentation, repetition, and sensory logic instead of cause-and-effect plotting.
For students, this script becomes a class in voice-driven storytelling, nonlinear construction, embodied point of view, and how form itself can carry theme. It challenges the idea that stories must be “coherent” to be truthful.
This is a blueprint for writing from the inside out.
→ Download the full Educator Breakdown (PDF) for tone analysis, screenwriting takeaways, a Critical Lens module, and a writing exercise. For the complete screenplay, continue scrolling until you see the button.
The Chronology of Water (2025) — Classroom Study
"The Chronology of Water" screenplay rejects the idea that life unfolds in neat sequences. Instead, it organizes experience the way memory actually works: through sensation, emotional echo, and associative leaps. Trauma is not something the protagonist “overcomes.” It is something she carries, swims through, and reshapes into language. This is a script about embodiment. The body remembers before the mind does. Pain, desire, shame, and intimacy are not subtext here -- they are the text. For screenwriters, this script offers a rare lesson: story doesn’t have to move forward to move deeper.
- Writing trauma without spectacle
- Fragmented narrative as ethical choice
- The relationship between memory and structure
- Writing the body vs writing events
- Gendered expectations of coherence
- When discomfort is productive
"The Chronology of Water" One Sheet & Script Intel
A woman, after an abusive childhood, escapes into competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before finding her voice through writing. IMDb
| Type | ... |
FYC
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| Version | ... | FinalRevised |
| Date | ... | 06.05.2024 |
| Pages | ... | 110 |
| Genres | ... | Bio Drama Romance |
| Screenplay | ... | Kristen Stewart |
| IMDb ID | ... | 8667404 |
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