Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer (2023)
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.
Director: Rebecca Jane Arthur
| Production | Christina Stuhlberger | Producer |
| Production | Rebecca Jane Arthur | Producer |
| Sound | Paul Abbott | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Paul Abbott | Music |
| Writing | Rebecca Jane Arthur | Writer |
| Editing | Rebecca Jane Arthur | Editor |
| Editing | Fairuz Ghammam | Editor |
| Art | Rebecca Jane Arthur | Art Direction |
| Sound | Aurélien Lebourg | Sound Mixer |
| Directing | Rebecca Jane Arthur | Director |
| Camera | Rebecca Jane Arthur | Director of Photography |
