Murphy is a pure synchronized sound and light projection from which the artist consciously redraws his own figure. Unlike more traditional Melhus’ pieces, in which the artist embodies different roles - including that of a woman sometimes -, Murphy envelops a dramatic reduction to abstract fields of colour and concentrates exclusively on its sound footage, which results in a collage of some of the most significant moments from mainstream war movies. The video light sequence is based on sound snippets from the movie Blue Thunder (USA, 1982), which was one of the early 80s media rehabilitations of Vietnam war veterans in civilian society. In Murphy, the visible stream of colour light and the absence of the image itself creates an imaginary movie that possibly connects to the first draft of the screenplay for Blue Thunder which featured Captain Frank Murphy as more of a crazy main character with deeper psychological issues, who went on a rampage and destroyed a lot more of the city. Murphy is a true abstract Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.