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

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Documentary

Cast

Naomi Scott

Joseph Sleep

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