The poetry of life and loss in the Arkansas Ozarks, capturing our relationship to the natural world

A filmmaker returns to his Ozarks hometown and moves through memory, river landscapes and rodeo energy in a quiet meditation on time, loss and belonging.

A lyrical, beautifully shot portrait of Arkansas life and landscape, told as a personal reckoning with home.

Returning to his hometown in a small nook of the Ozarks, director Cole Borgstadt reconciles his identity for short film Mudpuppy, observing the movement of time through the lens of Arkansas life.

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