
Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer
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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- Released
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- Language
- English
- childhood
- personal diary
- experimental
- fading memories
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United KingdomGB
- PremiereOpen City Documentary Film Festival9 Sept 2023
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Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer was released on 9 September 2023.
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