-2024- — Caddo Lake

To watch Caddo Lake is to confront the paradox of the Southern swamp: it is both a graveyard and a nursery. Under the tannin-dark water—stained the color of iced tea by decaying leaves—lie the skeletons of old logging roads, submerged cabins, and the hulls of wooden boats that will never sail again. And yet, from this same murk, lily pads erupt in violent green, and baby alligators, no longer than a pencil, float like golden twigs. The film lingers on this duality. Decay is not an ending here; it is a verb. It is the engine of life.

It is not a place to visit. It is a place to be forgotten by. And that, perhaps, is its gift. Caddo Lake -2024-

There is a place where time does not pass, but pools. Caddo Lake, straddling the blurred line between Texas and Louisiana, is that place. In the 2024 portrait of this ancient wetland, the camera does not simply observe water, cypress trees, and hanging moss—it submerges you in a memory that the land itself is keeping. To watch Caddo Lake is to confront the