Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer

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

Rebecca Jane Arthur

Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer, Art Direction

Fairuz Ghammam

Editor

Christina Stuhlberger

Sound Recordist, Music

Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer

Crew

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