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Uploaded by on Mar 31, 2011

PJ Harvey - Written On The Forehead
From A Series Of 12 Short Films, By Seamus Murphy

From the album 'Let England Shake'
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SEAMUS MURPHY — "When I first heard 'Written on the Forehead' and its opening in a Middle-Eastern war setting and ending with a reggae-riff, I thought of black and white photographs I had taken in hot, dusty conflict zones.

Mixing them with the scenes of quiet desperation of England and that parallel movement came later in post-production.

Call it random, maybe it is, but usually the pictures themselves suggest what works together, the music has a lot to say in the choice too and a sympathy between them develops. It ended up as a way to show how different are all our lives, Us and Them. And a reminder, that despite all our differences we are all still vulnerable with human emotions.

Shooting pictures makes you observe in a detached way, whether in the West Bank, Gaza, Mogadishu or Waterloo Station in London.

Afterwards you try to make sense of them. What they mean will be personal to everyone. The opening with PJ Harvey's lyrics spoken in Arabic was shot in a pub on the Portobello Road."

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  • I love this album so much!

  • Best track on the C.D. :)

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  • RIP.

  • @neoskosmos01 Me too...so peaceful...

  • The last scene is what I would like to do for the rest of my life...

  • what a nice comment on the state of the world with some beautiful poetry. i remember that day the yanks brought "shock and awe" to Baghdad. sitting here in the west it made me feel deeply sick, look over my own city and wondering.. and this song sums up that feeling for me wonderfully. Much love PJ xx :)

  • let it burn....

  • @volitionlocked agreed, did you check the ninny the observer track she samples from thats so cool as well

  • @felpen537 From 2011's "Let England Shake"

  • What album is this from

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