Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Rebecca Jane Arthur
Writing	Writer	Rebecca Jane Arthur
Production	Producer	Rebecca Jane Arthur Christina Stuhlberger
Editing	Editor	Rebecca Jane Arthur Fairuz Ghammam
Art	Art Direction	Rebecca Jane Arthur
Camera	Director of Photography	Rebecca Jane Arthur
Sound	Music	Paul Abbott
	Sound Recordist	Paul Abbott
	Sound Mixer	Aurélien Lebourg
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