WITH four features completed and released in under a decade – and a fifth receiving its Scottish premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival this month – art rocker-turned-auteur Richard Jobson is nothing if not prolific.
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Neither is he slavishly devoted to a single cinematic flavour.
His films have encompassed dreamlike autobiography (16 Years Of Alcohol), witty genre flicks (The Pacifiers and New Town Killers) and a ghost story (A Woman In Winter). He has also produced films for other people, made shorts and videos, and even morphed briefly into a past self – frontman with Fife punk band The Skids.
