2017 Come Swim 🅳🆂✎


"Come Swim" is a diptych of one man's day; half impressionist and half realist portraits.
Written & Directed by Kristen Stewart
Produced by David Ethan Shapiro | Starlight Studios
Starring Josh Kaye & Sydney Lopez


(2017) Come Swim

2017 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour Schedule | TIFF | IFC | Jul 08 onwards
Film Review: 2017 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour
By Eric Monder, Film Journal | Tweet Thread | 20170607


'2017 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour': Film Review by John DeFore, THR | 20170606
So everything is worthwhile, starting with the first piece, Kristen Stewart’s “Come Swim” (one of several U.S. entries), which is a largely impressionistic, sometimes confusing exploration into a young man’s struggle to maintain his sanity in the face of despair. Hollywood star Stewart (of Twilight series fame) makes her directorial debut and employs jump-cutting and odd angles to mirror the man’s fragmented existence in a way that echoes Lodge Kerrigan’s Clean, Shaven (1993) and the oeuvre of Darren Aronofsky. “Come Swim” isn’t necessarily original but it isn’t poorly made either, and its inclusion was probably not based solely on the natural curiosity regarding Stewart’s chops behind the camera.
70th annual Cannes Film Festival | May 17 to 28 May | Red Carpet, Photos and Conference


Kristen Stewart Is Now a Director, and Speaks For Herself: ‘Ask Me Anything!’ by Anne Thompson, Indiewire | 20170530

The actress made her fourth trek to Cannes with her directing debut, short "Come Swim." She wants to do it again. The star supports more women behind the camera in Hollywood, and looks forward to more directing.
Kristen Stewart Brings Directorial Debut ‘Come Swim’ To Cannes by Brent Furdyk, ET Canada | 20170521
“You don’t realize when you’re trudging through that water, you feel so alone,” Stewart says. “We’ve all been there. But when you’re in it, you feel like you can’t participate in life.”
Writer and director Kristen Stewart of 'Come Swim' joins The Hollywood Reporter at Cannes 2017 to discuss festival formality, isolation, and the short film format.
Kristen Stewart Says "Ask Me Anything" on Directorial Debut 'Come Swim' by THR Staff | Tweet | 20170522
"Holding that up for someone always makes me really nervous," Stewart told THR, on the difference between representing a film as an actor versus a director. She recently directed her first short film, 'Come Swim.'
Holding that up for someone always makes me really nervous," Stewart told THR, on the difference between representing a film as an actor versus a director. She recently directed her first short film, 'Come Swim.'
Kristen Stewart: "I Have No Responsibility to Anyone" As 'Come Swim' Director by THR Staff | Tweet | 20170522
"Usually I hope I say things the right way, hope it's concise. Usually I am representing a director." Stewart recently directed her first short film, 'Come Swim.'
Usually I hope I say things the right way, hope it's concise. Usually I am representing a director." Stewart recently directed her first short film, 'Come Swim.
Kristen Stewart on 'Come Swim': "I Wanted to Externalize an Internal Feeling" by THR Staff | Tweet | 20170522
"Overtly aggrandized pain is so normal," said Stewart of her inspiration for her film 'Come Swim.'
Overtly aggrandized pain is so normal," said Stewart of her inspiration for her film 'Come Swim.'

Review - Cannes: Come Swim by Corina Rottger, Next Project | Tweet | 20170528
Stewart’s short, to which she has also written the script, is a solid and unconventional debut. Despite its experimental form, Come Swim sticks to a sort of linear narrative structure. It explores the heartache and pain caused by a break-up and coming to terms with it through abstract and often haunting visuals
Come Swim – first look review by Matt Hoffman, Little White Lies | Tweet | 20170522
While the images may not coalesce to any conventionally satisfying measure, they nonetheless hint at a young filmmaker with real talent.
Kristen Stewart on her directing debut: 'The best female film-makers are compulsive freaks' by Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian | Tweet | 20170522
‘It needs to be its own animal’ … Kristen Stewart on the set of Come Swim.
‘It’s like they’re saying, “Sure, you can show your little short here”’ … Stewart in Cannes.
Kristen Stewart dives into grief in Cannes directorial debut by Jake Coyle, AP Europe | Tweet | 20170521
“Oh my God, I’m like tripping out. It’s crazy. I mean honestly, I think Thierry (Fremaux, festival director), is being nice to me or something,” says Stewart. “He’s just like, ‘OK you can show your little movie here.’ I’m like, ‘Thank you!’”
★★★★☆ and it's no ordinary first film by Robbie Collin, Telegraph | Tweet | 20170521
Cynics may scoff that anyone with Stewart’s budget and calibre of crew could have made a good film. But even just a second’s reflection throws up countless examples where they didn’t. (Again, hello Gosling and Penn.) The truth is, she has something – and when there's something more, Cannes will no doubt make room.
Kristen Stewart in poetic mood for her directorial debut by Eugénie Malinjod, Festival de Cannes | 20170520
I wanted to capture that image which is as obsessive as the recurring thoughts that first gave rise to it. What I thought was just an image in my head was in fact something much more expansive. - Kristen Stewart

2017 Sundance Film Festival under Shorts Program 1 PDF) | Jan 19 to 29 | Red Carpet, Photos and Conference

Refinery29 Shatterbox Anthology | Trailer

Kristen Stewart makes her directorial debut at @sundancefest as a part of Refinery29's Shatterbox anthology series. Come Swim is a surrealist journey through the imagination's wild currents.

Get ready to go behind-the-scenes on the set of Kristen Stewart's directorial debut, Come Swim. With her impressionistically surreal film, Stewart joins the growing number of Hollywood women who've moved behind the camera, partnering with Refinery29's Shatterbox Anthology to tell this stunningly unique story. A journey through the imagination's wild currents, Come Swim conjures a kaleidoscopic portrait of one man's emotional interior — unbounded darkness and desire.

Kristen Stewart Tells Us What It's Really Like Being "An Obsessive Person" by Molly Stout, Refinery29 | 20170124
I’m a total perfectionist and I’m an obsessive compulsive maniac, but I watched this movie make itself. - Kristen Stewart
Why The World Needs More Women Sound Recordists Like Amanda Beggs by R. A. Farley, Refinery29 | 20170121
"[Kristen Stewart] gives her all when she goes into it to perform for whatever role," Beggs explains. "If she's giving 110%, you don't want to come up to her and say, 'Oh, actually, we didn't really get that line' or, 'We kinda missed it' or, 'It sounded a little soft, can we do it again?'" Stewart ran into Beggs at a party in L.A. years after Camp X-Ray and recruited the sound mixer for her project with Refinery29.
Kristen Stewart On Her “Masochistic” Directorial Debut ‘Come Swim’: “It’s Not A Small Movie” – Sundance Studio by Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline | Tweet | 20170121
“It’s not a small movie,” asserts Stewart, “It’s not like actors in a room talking to each other which you would definitely expect an actor to start off with (as a directorial project), myself too. Why did I make my first experience so difficult? I’m a little masochistic.” - Kristen Stewart
Kristen Stewart on Her Directorial Debut, Variety | 20170120
"I’ve Wanted to Make Movies Since I Was 10," Kristen Stewart, along with actor Josh Kaye, and producers David Ethan Shapiro and Michael A. Pruss, joined the Variety Studio at the Sundance Film Festival, presented by Orville Redenbacher’s, to talk about her directorial debut “Come Swim.”

Kristen Stewart on directing 'Come Swim': 'I'm not trying to prove anything' by Myung Chun, LA Times | 20170120
Kristen Stewart enjoyed the free-form aspect of making her short film, "Come Swim," which is showing at the Sundance Film Festival. She doesn't see that as a directorial steppingstone to full-length features.

Kristen Stewart ('Come Swim' Director) on Female Directors: "Just Make Stuff" by THR Staff | 20170119
"I think it's going to be easier now, especially now that we're all so pissed" - Kristen Stewart
Kristen Stewart Explains 'Come Swim' by IMDB | 20170119
Kristen Stewart explains to Kevin Smith the inspiration behind her new short, 'Come Swim.'
Kristen Stewart Opens Up About Being a Director by Kevin Smith, IMDB | 20170119
Kristen Stewart drops by the IMDb Studio at Sundance to chat with Kevin Smith on the experience of directing her Sundance short, 'Come Swim.'

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