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A Dog Called Money

Documentaire
    Réalisé par Seamus Murphy • Écrit par Seamus Murphy
    Irlande, Royaume-Uni • 2019 • 90 minutes • Couleur
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Un voyage aux côtés de PJ Harvey, qui suit le processus de création de son nouvel album The Hope Six Demolition Project, conçu par ses voyages autour du globe, en Afghanistan, au Kosovo, on encore dans les quartiers pauvres de Washington DC.

"Lui collecte des images, elle des mots. En 2015, Ils font route ensemble, du Kosovo à l'Afghanistan, en passant par la communauté noire de Washington D.C. Polly Jean Harvey écrit ce qui la traverse au cours de cette dérive aux marges de l'Empire. Seamus Murphy la filme. Lunaire et longiligne, engoncée dans sa parka sombre, jouant d'un piano désaccordé à Kaboul ou suivant une cérémonie de circoncision près de Pristina. Sa voix rauque, unique, est mixée dans les ambiances, comme une voix "témoin". Qui deviendra un chant, lors de l'enregistrement – avec ses complices de toujours, John Parish, Mick Harvey...– de ce qui est en train de naître sous nos yeux : The Hope Six Demolition Project, onzième album de PJ Harvey. Le film navigue entre le dehors et le dedans d'un studio éphémère équipé d'une vitre sans tain, installé à la Somerset House de Londres, afin que le public assiste à des sessions conçues comme une installation. A Dog Called Money, c'est un voyage intimiste et rare à travers l'inspiration, l'écriture et l'art de l'une des plus grandes chanteuse et guitariste de l'histoire du rock des 25 dernières années."
(Visions du Réel - Emmanuel Chicon)

A child curiously presses its face against the window of a car in which British musician PJ Harvey and photojournalist and filmmaker Seamus Murphy are sitting. They are in Kabul, Afghanistan, one of three destinations to which they are travelling; the others are Kosovo and Washington, D.C. Harvey is searching for inspiration; collecting impressions and words, observing, listening and absorbing. Her thoughts can be heard in voice-over. Hers is the chronicle of a stranger whose attentive gaze is directed towards the reality of everyday life in the places she visits. Inspiration turns into poetry, which gives rise to songs for her album The Hope Six Demolition Project. Back in London, Harvey records these songs with her band in a purpose-built studio which serves as a kind of peepshow, its one-way window allowing interested audiences to observe the process.
Seamus Murphy transposes Harvey’s search for inspirational material and her intimate creative process into an impressively poetic montage that never once divests the musician of her enigmatic aura. A Dog Called Money merges the filmmaker’s and the musician’s visions in an extraordinary symbiosis.

"He captures the images, she the words. In 2015, they travel together, from Kosovo to Afghanistan, via Washington D.C.’s black community. Polly Jean Harvey writes what comes to mind during this drift along the margins of the Empire. Seamus Murphy films her. Fanciful and slender, bundled up in her dark parka, playing an out-of-tune piano in Kabul or following a circumcision ceremony near Pristina. Her unique, husky voice is mixed into the ambiances, like a “witness” voice. Which will become a song, during the recording—with her longstanding accomplices, John Parish, Mick Harvey, etc.—of what is being created before our eyes: The Hope Six Demolition Project, PJ Harvey’s eleventh album. The film moves between the outside and inside of an ephemeral studio fitted with one-way glass, set up in Somerset House in London, so that the public can witness these sessions designed as an installation. A Dog Called Money is an intimate and rare voyage into the inspiration, writing and art of one of the greatest singer-guitarists in the past 25 years of rock history."
(Visions du Réel - Emmanuel Chicon)

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