Seamus Murphy: belief

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…The further album, Hope Six Demolition Project, that came out of trips to Kosovo and Washington. Am I understanding this correctly? Trips to Afghanistan. Kosovo, Washington, DC. We’d decided we’d like to travel together and see where things would take us. The promise to each other was, if we did this once and it just didn’t work, that’s fine. We wouldn’t do it. We were invited to Kosovo, to a very good film festival called the DokuFest in Prizren, and they wanted us to do a Q&A based on my 12 short films for Let England Shake. I’d been to Kosovo during the war, and she’d already started writing some stuff, actually, based on some of my pictures. We went, and we thought, “Okay, we’ll go on this, and maybe this can be the start of the travels.” The Balkans are a fascinating place to go to, and Kosovo is at peace, but very interesting and very, very warm people. We spent a few days in Kosovo, and we discovered that we could travel together, and we could actually produce work, and we were sort of up and running. A year later, I was in Afghanistan working on that poetry project, The Afghan Women’s Poetry Project, a book and film. It was quiet there. It was 2012. I had finished my work there; it was December. I had a very good situation with a very nice place to live, a good driver that I trusted, and I just offered, would she like to come and visit Afghanistan? Didn’t know whether she would or not, and in the end, she did, and we did that. That was pretty extraordinary because I think what she wrote about Afghanistan was so unique. It’s a very different take. I’d never read anything like what she was writing about Afghanistan. How would you characterize that?…

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