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100 p.o.v. number 13 March 2002 Stills from Kitchen Sink, written and directed by Alison Maclean.
A Danish Journal of Film Studies 101 An interview with Alison Maclean on Kitchen Sink Richard Raskin You stated in an earlier interview that the story for Kitchen Sink came to you little by little, and I know that you wrote a detailed screenplay for the film. But did the story change at all along the way? Does the film depart in any significant ways from the original concept? I came up with the idea in response to a kind of brief on the New Zealand Film Commission. They were asking for ideas for 13- minute shorts. It was a set budget and a set length. And I literally sat down one day and tried to think of a story that could work for that kind of scale. And I thought: something involving a woman, basically alone at home, where something might happen to her. And then it really kind of came very quickly in sequence and I saw the whole film. But the part that stumped me, that took me a long time to solve, was actually the ending. The rest was very clear to me, I could see the whole thing, right up to when this creature wakes up as a man, but I really didn't know what to do from there. And that probably took about four months or so, and I was mulling it over and trying out different ways of ending it – like having him speak, and making it kind of complicated – and then I finally thought of the final image, that seemed to bring the story full circle. But that took a bit of time. Can you tell me anything about the casting of Theresa Healy and Peter Tait in the main roles? Peter Tait was an actor I had used in another film I did called Talk Back. I just loved his face and his presence. Actually, in that other
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