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.
Hart of the Wood ‘Ways of the Plant'
Amsterdam, through the eyes of
On the Other Side
Al jet
Aquí y allí: journal d'une exilée
Variations on How to Farm a City
To the Sea
Juzo Itami: The Man with 13 Faces
The Birds Changed Names And The World Turned Into Ice
O Que Nos Separa
1/2 Man
Language of the Entrails
