My Son’s “Low and Clear” Screens at Local Juneau Theatre
Clarissa’s son, Kahlil Lampe Hudson, Skyping on the big screen with Q&A directly after his film “Low and Clear” at the Nickelodean Theatre in Juneau, Alaska
Kahlil’s documentary “Low and Clear” finally screened in Juneau with two showings on Saturday, August 3rd. Kahlil and friend Tyler Hughen, co-directed and co-produced the film which has made its rounds in the film festival circuit around the nation and world, including Amsterdam, Canada and Australia. For a trailer on the film, you may visit his website at: http://www.lowandclear.com/
In the audience, Kahlil’s old-time friend, Jesse Tabor, son of the late Buddy Tabor, and Kahlil’s sister, Lily Hope
The cinematography in this film is exquisite. Sure you can call me biased because I am his mother, but I am making this statement because it is in no doubt, true. If anything, don’t believe me but see for yourself; watch the film for its photography of nature and the sense of no-slap-stick-humor displayed throughout the film.
On my way up a mountain in Haines to pick berries, I ran into friends who told me that Kahlil’s film was filming this evening at the Nickelodean. What? Kahlil didn’t tell his mother? Determined to pick blue berries still, I decided that I would do both: pick berries for a few hours, then get on a plane from Haines to Juneau to see the film this night and return back to Haines the next morning. Seems ridiculous but what how could a mother not see the official screening of her son’s film in their own home town? Hello? I knew that if I didn’t do whatever it took to get on that flight, I would have regret it and I prefer to live my life with as few regrets as possible.
When I first saw the film on big screen with Dan during the film festival in Telluride, Colorado, we sat in the front seat, in total awe. Viewing the film again for the second time in Juneau was just as awesome with additional excitement this time with the anticipation that the audience would be able to communicate with Kahlil via Skype.
In the opening scene and throughout certain places of the film, I thought of my father and mother. Like I said, the cinematography is exquisite and it brought me to tears. I know my parents would have been proud to see the talents of their first-born grandchild’s accomplishment. I had so wished they were alive to see this film on two fishermen and their ways of fishing.
My father was an avid troller fisherman in Alaska. He was a fisherman in the Philippines where he was born but when he moved to Alaska, he started to fish in the Gulf of Alaska near Kodiak. Then in 1955, he headed down to Excursion Inlet/Haines/Hoonah/Juneau area. He fished all of his life. I would love to have seen the expressions on his face and my mother’s face if they saw Kahlil’s film. C’est la vie!
Go ahead and order the film from Kahlil and Tyler’s website, or even check it out on Netflix if you must see it right away. I suggest you watch it on the biggest screen you can so you can absorb the magnificence of the water scenes.
Click here to read the Juneau Empire article introducing the film.
