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A satirical exploration of the origins of humor that moves between the absurd and the deadly serious.

John Smith, 1984, wrote:
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 - Shepherd's Delight [DVD-PAL].mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	33 min 32 s
Size: 	812 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	716x574 ~> 765x574
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 192 kb/s
BPP: 	0.311
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Main)

https://nitro.download/view/85B46E520FAA5B5/John_Smith_-_1984_-_Shepherd’s_Delight__DVD-PAL_.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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