Joe Sleep
Joe Sleep

Joe Sleep

January 01, 1977 | 27 min

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

Cast

Naomi Scott

Joseph Sleep

Share on social media

More Like This

Hit So Hard
Gerhard Richter Painting
Maliar doktora smrti
Lucian Freud: Portraits
Cambio de sentido
Milenec léta
James Ensor: Demons Teasing Me
Donatello: Renaissance Genius
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
The Quiet Zone
The Next Right Thing
The Social Trap: 5 Women vs The Big 5
Les Muses du Minotaure
The Cinema According to Dalí
Prinzessinnenbad
The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci
Podium
Wet House
L'Orientalisme
Hoy no he bebido