The Jokes
After accidentally burning his breakfast, a man goes to a nearby cafe and struggles to read a graphic novel.
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I made The Jokes because it was all I could do with the amount of money I had while I was waiting for funding for larger project. The crew consisted of me, a sound recordist, and an assistant, and we shot everything on my Sony a7s iii. The film is a loose adaptation of a collection of 4-10 sentence short stories by Stephen Thomas (also called The Jokes). I singled out the ones that felt like the characters were disassociating, experiencing the intense mental process of disconnecting from oneself, and doing so in mundane locations or environments. When I’m in bouts of depression, anxiety, or stress, a task as simple as going to the grocery store or sitting in a cafe feels like a courageous expedition… and once there, something as small as an overheard word or a glance from a stranger, can warp my sense of reality. I wanted to explore that visually and sonically and meld a bunch of Thomas’ micro moments into a series of remotely connected vingettes; slivers of life rather than slices.

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