JOKING APART has been selected for the Glasgow Short Film Festival, and will be shown in programmes at 9pm on Friday 10 February at CCA, and 2pm on Saturday 11 February at The Shed.
Three philosophers, Plato, Hume and Descartes, get together to share a joke.
Seriously funny, or funnily serious – or both of these. Or perhaps neither. You decide, if that is possible.
An ostensibly light-hearted film that raises serious issues about the idea of understanding, the nature of humour in our culture, and our confrontation with the absurd.
Running-time – 5 minutes.
Between Dreams (1974)
8min30sec
Films Old and New
Ronnie Forbes is going to feature some of his film-making activity on this page,
changing the programme periodically as he digitally re-masters his early work.
Ronald Forbes was the only visual artist in Scotland consistently working in single screen film during the 1970.s and early 80.s. He began working in film as a post-graduate painting student at Edinburgh College of Art in 1969. He experimented on super–8 until 1973 when he was appointed Leverhulme Senior Art Fellow at the University of Strathclyde where he was able to develop his practice on 16mm film. This professional medium not only offered superior picture quality, but allowed him to use the camera as a laboratory, re-exposing the film many times to subdivide the screen and produce rich and complex overlays of image.
His films have often been shown internationally, usually in tandem with his exhibitions, from Dublin’s Project Art Centre, Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery, to Mazzo in Amsterdam
His film, “Between Dreams,“ of 1974, which was a prize-winner in the BBC Scotland “Scope” arts programme film competition, is structured as a faux documentary that looks at our key experiences of environment, activity, and time within one day. It established an engagement with our perception and understanding of illusion, belief and reality that has underpinned his film and painting activity to this day.
Escalating costs forced him to suspend film production in1982 after completing ”Incident.” However, he renewed activity using digital film processes in 2005 with “TheIllusionist”. His latest film ”By Any Other Name” is part of his solo touring exhibition of paintings, unique digital-collage prints and film, called, “De Rerum Natura: the Nature of Things.”
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