Shepherds Delight

Many of my films involve humour but unlike the earlier work Shepherds Delight attempts to confront the problem of humour headon referring directly since a large part of the film is composed of jokes and their analysis to the viewers perception of the film itself The film is largely concerned with how context determines the reading of information Since the films 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