Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer (movie)
- User score: 4
- Production country: Belgium
- Producer: Rebecca Jane Arthur
- Production companies: AC/E, Majority Flemish Production
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 9/9/2023
- Run time: 49 min.
Movie description
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.
