Hit Him on the Head with a Hard, Heavy Hammer
Rebecca Jane Arthur
2023 - Belgique, Royaume-Uni - Couleur - 49'
Image : Rebecca Jane Arthur, Eva Giolo, Gill Houghton
Son : Paul Abbott
Montage : Rebecca Jane Arthur
Production : elephy
Rebecca Jane Arthur
2023 - Belgique, Royaume-Uni - Couleur - 49'
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 ties. 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.
Image : Rebecca Jane Arthur, Eva Giolo, Gill Houghton
Son : Paul Abbott
Montage : Rebecca Jane Arthur
Production : elephy