Joe Sleep (1977)

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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

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
Languages: English

Runtime: 27 min.

Released: Jan. 1, 1977

Status: Released

Certification: NR

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

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
Languages: English

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