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Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer (2023)
Directed by Rebecca Jane Arthur
Documentary · 49m
Hit Him on the Head with a Hard, Heavy Hammer departs from the handwritten memoir of the filmmaker’s father and his experience of displacement during wartime. Referring to the notion Thomas Hardy termed ‘The Self-Unseeing’ in his eponymous 1901 poem, the film returns to childhood and the matters that harden us: upbringing, social status, education, labour, and familial bonds. The memoir weaves into the film as both a contemplation on mortality and an illustration of fading memory, reflecting on how we pen our pasts and how they can be re-told.
Crew
- Director
- Rebecca Jane Arthur
- Writer
- Rebecca Jane Arthur
- Director of Photography
- Rebecca Jane Arthur
- Editor
- Rebecca Jane Arthur, Fairuz Ghammam
- Producer
- Christina Stuhlberger, Rebecca Jane Arthur
Details
- Release date
- 2023-09-09
- Runtime
- 49m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Belgium
- Production
- AC/E, Majority Flemish Production