Personal Life
Caouette attended Westbury High School in Houston, Texas from 1987 to 1990.
Caouette has a son, Josh, who featured in the 2008 documentary Bi the Way. Caouette is gay and lives with his partner in New York City.
At the age of 12, Caouette accidentally smoked angel dust, resulting in what a doctor later diagnosed as Depersonalization disorder. The director has described his film "Tarnation" as an attempt to give his disorder filmic form. Of the film, he said:
"It was a completely organic process based on these unusual, psychological experiences I’ve had in my adult life—these strange, trancelike experiences, similar to sensations I remember from childhood when I had a very high fever. Where I’m half asleep and half awake, just on the cusp of dreamland. And right as I’m about to conk out, this whole plethora of information comes from my own awareness and rushes into my mind’s eye. It’s like a story, or a poem, or a series of images…It only makes sense for a moment and then it dissipates. It’s like this weird waking dream. I wanted to lucidly mimic that in the form of a film and transpose it cinematically."
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