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PJ Harvey’s 2016 album, The Hope Six Demolition Project, grew out of the English singer/songwriter’s collaboration with acclaimed photojournalist Seamus Murphy, who records their journeys through Kabul, Kosovo, and Washington, DC.

90 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Seamus Murphy. 

PJ Harvey’s 2016 album, The Hope Six Demolition Project, grew out of the English singer/songwriter’s collaboration with acclaimed photojournalist Seamus Murphy, who records their journeys through Kabul, Kosovo, and Washington, DC. The film takes us inside this prodigiously talented artist’s creative process – through the gestation, writing and recording of the Grammy®-nominated album – in an experimental, open-to-the-public studio at London’s Somerset House. Songs like “The Community of Hope,” “The Wheel,” and “The Ministry of Defence” are mini-portraits of impoverished and war-torn communities, be they in the Middle East or in the U.S. The album has been praised as “one of the most powerful protest albums of recent years” (Chicago Tribune) and “radically inventive…folk and blues op-ed journalism” (Rolling Stone).