Kitchen Sink

New Zealand

1989

14 Min

Black and White

Silent

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CAST Theresa Healey, Peter Tait, Annagretta Christian

ED David Coulson

Synopsis

A suburban housewife discovers a horrifying surprise at the end of a pesky hair lodged in her sink.

Director

Alison Maclean is a Canadian film director of music videos, short films, television (episodes of Sex & the City, The Tudors, Homicide: Life On the Street), commercials and feature films. Her works include the music video Torn (Natalie Imbruglia, 1998), the short film Kitchen Sink (1989) and the feature films Jesus’ Son (1999) starring Billy Crudup and Crush (1992) starring Marcia Gay Harden.

Alison Maclean was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1958, to New Zealand-born parents.

Her first short film, Kitchen Sink, a surreal suburban nightmare, debuted in Cannes in 1989 and won eight international awards. Maclean moved to New York in 1992. Her film Crush was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. After several years developing projects she got her second feature, Jesus’ Son (1999), starring Billy Crudup and Samantha Morton (with Holly Hunter, Dennis Hopper, Denis Leary and Jack Black… read more

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Simon So

8Aug10

It's a very impressive short film indeed.

PolarisDiB

16Jan10

"Kitchen Sink" as domestic space--obviously. I went in thinking kitchen sink realism, got a taste of Twilight Zone meets J-horror without technically being incorrect in my initial assumptions. A lonely woman manages to breed a partner out of her own dirty dishwork, and from there the cycle of life continues. Some good pacing and camerawork make this stand out from short films of a similar nature.

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