Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer

2023 | 49 minutes | 4.0 ★ (1)

Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer
  • Overview

    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.

  • Release Date

    09 September 2023

  • DirectingRebecca Jane Arthur
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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