Festival En ville! – HIT HIM ON THE HEAD WITH A HARD, HEAVY HAMMER + ÔTE-TOI DE MON SOLEIL  – Cinema Galeries

Festival En ville! – HIT HIM ON THE HEAD WITH A HARD, HEAVY HAMMER + ÔTE-TOI DE MON SOLEIL 

Directed byRebecca Jane Arthur, Messaline Raverdy
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  • Moderator ticket Article 27, Arsène 50
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Introducing

In the presence of the directors.

Introducing

In the presence of the directors.

HIT HIM ON THE HEAD WITH A HARD, HEAVY HAMMER

Rebecca Jane Arthur – BE, 2023, 49’ – VO EN – ST: FR

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.

  • En présence de la réalisatrice
  • Sélections : États Généraux du Film documentaire de Lussas / Open City Documentary Festival 2023

ÔTE-TOI DE MON SOLEIL

Messaline Raverdy – BE, 2023, 50’ – VO FR – ST: EN

Joseph cannot live at his own place anymore. For many years, he has travelled around the city with his trolley to gather tons of miscellaneous papers and objects of all kinds, thus filling his flat with labyrinthine chaos. He is said to have “the Diogenes syndrome”. He is gifted with vertiginous erudition and witty humour. The director help him unclog his home. One friendship is forming.

  • Belgian premiere, in the presence of the director
  • Award: Best Medium-Length Film – Festival dei Popoli 2023