2024
4K
TRT 8:37
Neches takes place on the Neches River in East Texas and is about a moment when a sensorial experience in a familiar place triggers a deep memory. I wanted to make a film that captures those memories as moments of crossover/overlap, so throughout the film we see an older woman, her mother, and her younger self in the same river landscape 50 years apart. I was thinking about how much a landscape can change in the span of a human lifetime (a forest can disappear) while still evoking easy warmth and familiarity when you encounter it again decades later (kayaking down the same curve in the river, or sitting under the same tree your mom did) and how human relationships are like that, too.
CAST:
Spike Gillespie
Adriana Bucheru
Kira Matica
CREW:
Written & Directed by Katy McCarthy
Produced by Insufficient Funds & 24 Cobras
Director of Photography Richard Carpenter
Additional Camera Katy McCarthy
Production Sound Katy Fairlee
Additional Sound Timo Nelson
Script Supervisor Wyatt Frantz
Production Assistant Isaac Duerkson
Production Assistant Dominic Sanchez
Editor Katy McCarthy
Sound Supervisor Joseph Kennemer
Color Sergio Muñoz
Music by Little Mazarn
Casting by Breakdown Services
THANKS TO:
Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast, Planet Texas 2050, Ellen Buchanan, Dante, Ryan Cheney, Christian Hendricks, Adam Golfer, Frederic Winkler, and Kira Matica