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This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 09a: Sledgehammer Diplomacy
Description: The crew goes to several racially mixed Chicago neighborhoods to ask black people “What do you think of white people?” and vice versa. No one gave a dull response… A middle-aged white man...
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This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 09: Sledgehammer Diplomacy
Description: The crew goes to several racially mixed Chicago neighborhoods to ask black people “What do you think of white people?” and vice versa. No one gave a dull response… A middle-aged white man...
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This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 08: Stories About Policemen
Description: Three monologues about encounters with authority figures, delivered in intense close-up. Each of the performers wears headphones and hears his own voice delayed and filtered by a...
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This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 07: Enhanced Reality
Description: Camera begins in close-up on a computer playing video games, and the sounds of Joe and several of his friends goofing off in the basement. Pull back – the same basement, empty. The sound...
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This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 06: Alone In A Dark Room
Description: Alone in a Dark Room – an atheist vision of life after death. Joe turns off the lights, plunging the show into total darkness. In the absence of vision, however, strange sounds emerge. A...
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This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 05: Cooking By Committee
Description: Sporting a trim haircut and a new T-shirt, Joe is disillusioned with hosting the show, and threatens to quit. Suddenly, Mark Audrain arrives with a surprise birthday cake. This triggers...
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This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 04: Well, At Least We Tried
Description: An audacious concept, again executed in a single, “uninterrupted” take: Joe introduces the show as a leisurely walk from his house to the Museum of Science and Industry – threatening...
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This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 03: Self-Indulgence
Description: Four people address the camera and deliver improvised, personal monologues. No common thread links the content. The revelations are honest, sometimes interesting, and everyone seems to...
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This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 02: People As They Really Are
Description: Joe and Paul and friends wander the streets of Hyde Park with the camera, asking strangers to tell them a joke. The entire episode is devoted to these encounters, as people comply, with...
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This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 01: Structural Cinema
Description: An homage to the infamous films like **** (24-hours of the exterior of the Empire State Building) and Sleep (eight hours of a man sleeping.) Joe introduces himself, then sits in his...
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