Karla Murthy

1 week ago | talkhouse.com | Nick Dawson |Karla Murthy

It was early in the edit when I experienced my first moment of panic. I had just brought on a co-editor to help me sort through hours and hours of footage. It’s the critical stage of any documentary project, when you put all your footage out on the table to get those first emotional reactions, to sift, examine and catalog it all. But unlike any other film I had made, this footage was uniquely different, because it was personal.

Jul 23, 2024 | talkhouse.com | Karla Murthy

Whenever I get stuck, my eyes instinctively wander up above my computer monitor to my bulletin board which is plastered with little odds and ends, photos, postcards and quotes I’ve collected over the years: a sketch of a house (see my first Talkhouse essay), a Sun Ra album cover, photos of my kids, a copy of a 1965 Time magazine cover with Bill Moyers (my former boss), a gold rim from a gallon of Blue Bell Ice Cream. Each holds a lesson, an inspiration, a reminder that it will all be OK.