Joe Coleman

Joe Coleman

Born: November 22, 1955
in Norwalk, Connecticut U.S.
Joseph Coleman is an American painter, illustrator actor and performance artist. He has been described as the ‘Walking ghost of Old America’, by his wife photographer, Whitney Ward, for his over-riding interest in the historical arcana and personae that often populate his paintings.

Movies for Joe Coleman...

Title: Billy Buys Brooklyn
Released: June 17, 2021
Type: TV
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The Cruel Tale of the Medicine Man
Title: The Cruel Tale of the Medicine Man
Released: December 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Mr. Choade, the director of The House of Choade, a Grand Guignol theatre, has made an evil bargain with the Medicine Man, who has promised to help him make an artistic leap. A young girl, Linda, who has just been released from a mental hospital, gets a job performing at the House of Choade and becomes embroiled in these machinations. Linda's ex-girlfriend Roxy re-connects with her and attempts to save her. This film, a dark comedy by first time director James Habacker, was shot in Manhattan and features many luminaries from the downtown performance art scene centered around the Slipper Room.
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Don Peyote
Title: Don Peyote
Character: John the Baptist
Released: May 1, 2014
Type: Movie
An ordinary guy delves deep into counterculture, conspiracy theories and the like as he tries to discern the structure of society.
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Serial Killer Culture
Title: Serial Killer Culture
Character: Himself
Released: February 4, 2014
Type: Movie
Serial Killer Culture examines the reasons why artists and collectors are fascinated by serial killers.
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Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation
Title: Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation
Character: Himself
Released: August 13, 2007
Type: Movie
Albert Fish, the horrific true story of elderly cannibal, sadomasochist, and serial killer, who lured children to their deaths in Depression-era New York City. Distorting biblical tales, Albert Fish takes the themes of pain, torture, atonement and suffering literally as he preys on victims to torture and sacrifice.
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Llik Your Idols
Title: Llik Your Idols
Released: July 30, 2007
Type: Movie
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
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Disinfo.Con
Title: Disinfo.Con
Character: Self
Released: February 20, 2007
Type: Movie
Disinfo.Con contains an amazing 4 hours of footage from The Disinformation Company's massive counterculture event in New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom. New York hadn't seen anything like this since the Nova Convention in 1978 which saw Frank Zappa, Patti Smith and others anoint William Burroughs as king of the counterculture. A quarter century later Disinformation's keynote speakers Richard Metzger and Douglas Rushkoff ushered in a dizzying, day-long array of performances ranging from sword-swallowing to sanskrit chanting, interspersed with lectures and conversations with counterculture luminaries like Mondo 2000 founder R.U. Sirius, industrial music progenitor Genesis P-Orridge, Grant Morrison, Robert Anton Wilson, theorists, performance artists and others from the extremes of popular culture. Nothing beats actually experiencing an event like this in the flesh, but this DVD comes pretty close to capturing the spirit of the counterculture as we lurch into the 21st century.
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Collectors
Title: Collectors
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 2000
Type: Movie
America is drawn to the macabre handiwork of the serial killer. From best sellers to movies and television, there is an insatiable appetite for serial killer related material. Enthusiasts have taken this fascination into reality, reaching out to the murderers through letters and visits, gathering artifacts of the crimes, and collecting serial killer art work. Filmed in the deep South, COLLECTORS journeys into this strange, compelling world to illuminate the outer limits of pop culture's fascination with murder and mayhem.
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Scarlet Diva
Title: Scarlet Diva
Character: Mr. Paar
Released: May 26, 2000
Type: Movie
A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for redemption.
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The Broken Giant
Title: The Broken Giant
Character: Samuel Woodbridge
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
When a fragile young woman named Clio (Missy Yager) seeks asylum in a New England church, rural preacher Ezra Caton (Will Arnett) sees her presence as a welcome distraction from his humdrum life. And although she can barely speak, Clio makes quick work of capturing Ezra's attention -- and pulling him away from his girlfriend. Chris Noth ("Sex and the City") and Brooke Smith (Silence of the Lambs) co-star in this dark, brooding drama.
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Trail of Blood
Title: Trail of Blood
Released: January 28, 1997
Type: Movie
A SOV dramatization of the crimes of the Green River Killer, by the cult filmmaker Ari Roussimoff.
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R.I.P. Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman
Title: R.I.P. Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
R.I.P Rest in Pieces is an intimate portrait of artist Joe Coleman, who is known around the world as a shamanic, moral voice diagnosing the ills of 21st century America. Coleman holds nothing back, telling us of a world wracked with tumorous cities, perversion, divorce, violence, atomic bombs, and a human race destroying itself simply because we are born.
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The Bowery
Title: The Bowery
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Documentary about the history, people, and culture of New Yorks' Bowery Street and neighborhood.
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No Age New York
Title: No Age New York
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A scattershot documentary about punk rock film makers in New York, with contributions from Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, Richard Kern, Beth B, Nick Zedd and many others. A love letter to the New York Underground.
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Black Hearts Bleed Red
Title: Black Hearts Bleed Red
Character: The Misfit
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A stark adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s short story A Good Man Is Hard To Find.
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Shadows in the City
Title: Shadows in the City
Character: Professor Mephisto
Released: August 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Paul Mills is a miserable, lonely man leading a meaningless existence in a nameless city and has visions of the Spirit of Death waiting to collect him while having encounters with various people while seeking solace for his short life knowing it will end soon. Shadows in the City was the last major work of New York’s 1980s No Wave film scene. Shot over seven years in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, painter-performer Ari Roussimoff’s only fiction feature captures the urban desolation of the city in the decade before gentrification.
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Mondo New York
Title: Mondo New York
Character: Professor Mambuzu
Released: April 22, 1988
Type: Movie
A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and settings that represent the "underground" areas of the city. She sees stand up comedy in Central Park, a prostitution auction, a voodoo ceremony, an S&M club, and a number of very interesting performance artists. These are just a few of the sights and sounds of New York that she encounters.
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Pranks!
Title: Pranks!
Released: March 5, 1988
Type: Movie
Video accompaniment to the book of the same name released by RE/SEARCH magazine, featuring interviews with Survival Research Lab's Mark Pauline, Joe Coleman, Karen Finley, Boyd Rice, and Frank Discussion. "Five Fabulously Funny Interviews with Fiendishly Flamboyant Pranksters discussing diabolical (and sometimes illegal) deeds. Dazzling deceptions and put-ons from some of the most outrageous artists living today."
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Where Evil Dwells
Title: Where Evil Dwells
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: Movie
Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between splatter flick, experimental film and transgressive art. The original footage was destroyed in a fire and the only footage that survived is this 28 minute preview that was put together for the Downtown New York Film Festival in 1985.