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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.
Belgium
Documentary
49 minutes
2023
Rebecca Jane Arthur
AC/E,
Majority Flemish Production
2023
0.0
2004
0.0
2023
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1960
6.0
2023
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2023
0.0
2024
0.0
2023
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2022
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2024
8.0
2021
0.0
0.0
2023
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2023
10.0
2023
5.0
1985
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2021
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2019
7.0
1986
7.0
2023
0.0