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Visual Archive // Hair of the Joe // The Audio has Gone.

A handful of photographs from an attempt to bring Hair of the Joe into the world. The audio is gone. The memories remain.

After finishing Hair of the Joe, I decided to see what would happen if I stopped envisioning the show and actually tried to make it.

The answer was: filmmaking is hard.

We shot portions of the pilot at the legendary Peter McManus Cafe in Manhattan with an extraordinarily patient cast who showed up at 4:00am on the coldest day of the year. Most of the production audio was ultimately lost, and the project never moved beyond these early scenes.

These stills are a glimpse of the version of the show that briefly existed outside my head: Joe behind the bar, and a New York that felt just strange enough for werewolves to plausibly be living and yerrrring along with the rest of us.

Special thanks to:

  • Peter McManus Cafe for allowing us to take over their beautiful space
  • Kenny Dieudonne // Director
  • Chris Catalano // Joe
  • Jessica Ruffus // Kendra
  • Morgane Ben Ami // Olivia

For a weekend, at least, the beast was real.