Keyword Fading Memories

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

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.

Solomon uses chemical and optical treatments to coat the film with a limpid membrane of swimming crystals, coagulating into silver recall, then dissolving.

Intriguing and transgressive, Jamaica has always been considered the most attractive island in the Caribbean. The place in the world that plays, sings and dances at all hours of the day and night.

A forgotten person faces the material disappearance of what it passed. Oblivion gradually consumes everything, destroying every possible illusion of eternity. In memory of those who no longer exist, neither as a face, nor in our memories, nor in a short film.

Myra and Galen, two young adults, cope with their drug addiction through willful ignorance; however, the reality of their situation begins to unfold, tainting Myra's childhood memories.

A Swedish woman prowls through her childhood memories after a Chinese plane crash.