Shepherd's Delight

Shepherd's Delight

🎞️ Movie 35 min GB
โ˜… 6.7 /10 1984

Many of my films involve humour, but unlike the earlier work Shepherd’s Delight attempts to confront the problem of humour head-on, referring directly (since a large part of the film is composed of jokes and their analysis) to the viewer’s perception of the film itself. The film is largely concerned with how context determines the reading of information. Since the film’s statements oscillate between the deadly serious (concentrating particularly on an examination of the more sinister aspects of humour) and the totally bogus, with no clearly defined points of changeover, the context is often ambiguous. Hopefully, this strategy undermines both the authority of the ‘serious’ statements and any predictable effect of the ‘jokes’. John Smith, 1984

Direction
Screenplay

Cast

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Mick Boys
Shepherd
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Colin Burgess
Hitch-hiker
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Helen Burgess
Hitch-hiker
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Nick Houghton
FBI agent
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Brigitte Kahn
Lecturer
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Jenni Morley
Comfort user
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David Parsons
Hamlet
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John Avery Taylor
Auguste 'Blackbird' Renoir
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Tony Thornton
Joke teller
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Patrick Duval
Cinematographer
John Smith
John Smith
Cinematographer