PJ Harvey documentary premieres this March
British musician PJ Harvey performing on the main stage at the “Sziget” Island Festival in 2017. Image: AFP/Attila Kisbenedek via AFP Relaxnews
“A Dog Called Money” received its world premiere at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival, which took place back in February 2019.
After being acquired by Abramorama last January, the documentary will now open on March 18 for a two-week run at the Film Forum in New York City.
The film, directed by British filmmaker Seamus Murphy, chronicles the making of Harvey’s reportage-style album, “The Hope Six Demolition Project”.
The project particularly documents Harvey and Murphy’s research field trips to Kabul, Afghanistan, Kosovo and low-income neighbourhoods of Washington DC between 2011 and 2014.
“Polly and I know and trust each other. Enough for her to travel with me to Afghanistan and other challenging places, and for me to believe she’d bring back magic. She then invited me into a big white box behind one-way windows to film every moment of the recording of the songs she brought back. Individually and together, this is our response to what we encountered,” Murphy said of working on the film.
These trips also inspired several of the pair’s most recent collaborative works, including Harvey’s 2014 collection of photographs and poetry, “The Hollow of the Hand”.
The English singer-songwriter has been relatively quiet since the release of her most recent and ninth studio album, “The Hope Six Demolition Project” in 2016.
More recently, Harvey composed the score for the latest stage adaptation of 1950’s classic “All About Eve” starring Gillian Anderson and Lily James.
Last May, she also unveiled the song “The Crowded Cell” from the soundtrack for Shane Meadows’ four-part mini-series “The Virtues” which aired on BBC 4. JB
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