The truth is always hard to understand when money for the poor isn’t just energy. In such case money is a conditioned relationship of human response, in someone’s lifetime experience. Understanding poverty clash in the combination with viewing different culture clash is inherently connected to the “money blueprint”. With this “blueprint,” a process of building the foundation of understanding is unsteady and full of cracks. In most documentaries about war, culture shock or poverty crash there is a sense of undoing shame as an ongoing process. We encounter it in the wildest of moments and it is a feel like we’ve done something wrong: it is merely just the sense of undoing shame that can be provoked by a group of images in film, images of someone else’s life as a big black hole inside the stomach and eventually the one that encompasses whole mind and body. Undoing shame is the tangled web of arduous process in one’s filmed frames images. The combination of world wide hazards, conflict and fragility provided as a recipe for human suffering.
More to it, one of the interesting guests of Irish Festival this year, organized by Irish Culture Board and Irish Embassy, https://eng.belgradeirishfestival.rs/ Seumus Murphy, an Irish war photographer and filmmaker has been presenting his work with British musician, an indie star and a poet P.J.Harvey http://www.pjharvey.net Seumus’ photographs and documentary film from 2016 about their travel to Kosovo, Kabul and to doggy part of Washington DC actually opened the festival. The film at the same time, presents the work process of PJ Harvey in making of 2016’s “The Hope Six Demolition Project” album. But “A Dog Called Money” 2016 documentary is PJ Harvey’s and Seamus Murphy’s
reportage-style album and culture study, well and multi functional film, and is a pretty well research cover of Kosovo, Kabul and doggy part of Washington DC in all its political engagement where Murphy respects Harvey’s cool and emotional distance (which of course, fits just perfect with P.J.Harvey’s cool indie music image style). However, many social studies today, assesses the evidence base for how war disasters affect conflicts on a bigger level, and how conflict affects disasters, and also how people living in complex environments are affected by multiple risks. Any given context provide tendency to consider how one risk impacts another, in an understanding of how multiple vulnerabilities stack up in a mind of a viewer. How disasters and conflict collide in different culture, into it all presented by vulnerability, dynamic and shaped by interconnected shocks, and it is how it must be addressed as such.
Seamus Murphy and PJ Harvey began their collaboration back in 2008, when they released an exhibition and book of Murphy’s work A Darkness Visible. Seamus would later shoot short films for PJ’s demo of “Let England Shake” album. The music creativity and yet still great charisma of P.J.Harvey shines through in there, in this beautifully impressionistic and yet, low budget documentary. It is the combination of music, travelogue and art, with fantastic location footages, groundbreaking experiences and intensive enough charge: it is a personal experience of hope and humanity in human suffer and devastation, where P.J. Harvey meets people, writes lyrics and gathers inspiration for the album, while back in London, she and other pretty well known indie musicians recording the album. The list of the musicians there includes multi instrumentalists and brilliant The Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey and James F. Johnston painter and ex Bad Seeds guitarist and multi instrumentalist, as well as some other musicians yet known to indie music lovers.
“In the conflict environments – they can be harrowing and dangerous places to be – but they are places where change is happening and history is being made. I work as a journalist when I am in these places, art may or may not come from it. Either way I have a function when I am there, to record what I am seeing and try to understand it to communicate it. Depending on how severe the circumstances, to some degree that role can protect you. But being human means your emotions will always be involved and situations and images stay with you long afterwards” said Murphy.
PJ Harvey and James F. Johnston in “A Dog Called Money” by Seumus Murphy
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