17.06.23, 19:30, Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer, Rebecca Jane Arthur

Artistiek onderzoeker Rebecca Jane Arthur stelt de film Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer voor met een Brusselse première in Beursschouwburg. 

A contemplation on mortality and the fading memory.

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.

49 min.
Engels gesproken

Gevolgd door een gesprek tussen de kunstenaar en Clara Schulmann (in English)

Rebecca Jane Arthur is als artistiek onderzoeker verbonden aan KASK & Conservatorium, de school of arts van HOGENT en Howest. Het onderzoeksproject Homeward Bound: Her Memoir on Binds and Becoming werd gefinancierd door het Onderzoeksfonds Kunsten van HOGENT.