A Dog Called Money

Synopsis

Writer and musician PJ Harvey and award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy hatched a collaboration - seeking first-hand experience of the countries she wanted to write about, Harvey accompanied Murphy on some of his worldwide reporting trips, joining him in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Washington DC. Harvey collected words, Murphy collected images.
By capturing the immediacy of their encounters with the people and places they visited, Murphy shows the humanity at the heart of the work, tracing the sources of the songs, their special metamorphosis into recorded music, and ultimately, cinema.

Director Biography

Seamus Murphy, born in the UK in 1959, he is a photographer, filmmaker and author. His photographic work has been exhibited in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Imperial War Museum in London, at Stanford University and at FRAC Auvergne. His film A Darkness Visible, documenting his work as a photographer in Afghanistan, was nominated for an Emmy Award. Having made music videos for musician PJ Harvey, he continued their collaboration with the book “The Hollow of the Hand”.