Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer

Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer

4.0 Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer

2023, 49 m

Documentary

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.

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