Ballast is Hammer's astonishing first feature film. A former architect-turned-art-designer, Hammer had always dreamed of eventually directing his own movies; but like many writers and artists for whom money was never a main priority, he quickly disavowed himself from the industry of Tinseltown. Soured to the vacuousness and artifice of Hollywood, Hammer set out to create a piece that he felt would capture an undeniable truth on the screen, a work of visually arresting art that had the ability to both move audiences emotionally as well as tell a narratively compelling tale. The result is this spare, yet achingly poignant drama about a single mother and her teenage son as they try to get along-- with or without the help of the boy's uncle-- amidst the stark and sorrowful landscape of the Mississippi Delta.
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