Performances

"Original Sin" lecture and film screening

1999

during “Original Sin” exhibition, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT.

Lecture followed by performance by Hasil Adkins

1999

American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore.

Clayton Patterson Presents: Joe Coleman

1998

Staten Island, NY: M/W/F Video Club. Verité video portrait by Patterson (created in 1989), including excerpts from performances and a brief tour of the subject’s Odditorium of the era; (originally aired on Manhattan Neighborhood Network).

An audience with the artist

1998

Q&A at UK launch party for Original Sin, Horse Hospital, London.

R.I.P.: Rest in Pieces

1997

Directed by Robert Pejo, Prisma Films. A feature-length documentary about Coleman and his art, with appearances by Hasil Adkins, Jim Jarmusch, and Harold Schechter. Distributed to theaters in New York, Los Angeles, England, France, Austria, Mexico, Japan, and elsewhere.

"End is Near!" lecture

1996

American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD.

Trail of Blood

1993

A film by Ari Roussimoff. Coleman plays a criminologist.

Sideshow Barker

1993

Coleman performs as a sideshow barker at Coney Island during filming of R.I.P: Rest in Pieces

"Cult Rapture" lecture/screening

1993

Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA.

Black Hearts Bleed Red

1992

An independent film by Jeri Cain Rossi based on Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” Coleman plays a major role as The Misfit.