Joe Sleep (1977)

Filmed 2 years before his death, this documentary portrays New Brunswick folk artist Joseph Sleep (1913-1978) in his later life. He was born at sea and worked with and around boats, fish, carnivals, and animals most of his life. While convalescing during an extended period in the Halifax infirmary in 1973, he was encouraged to paint. What began is therapy and a pastime developed into a way of representing a lifetime of images and experience

Released Jan. 1, 1977 27 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: mdblist.one-actor, tmdb.painter, tmdb.alcohol, tmdb.addiction, tmdb.folk-art, tmdb.new-brunswick, tmdb.nova-scotia, tmdb.eastern-canada

Production Companies: Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP)

Country: Canada
Production Country: Canada
Languages: English