2000
The Coleman/Ward wedding
at The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore on 11/11/00. Marriage as spectacle, celebration, and performance art. Trapeze artists, dwarves, sword swallowers, guests in costume, and catered delicacies— only of foods with their heads still attached. A ventriloquist’s dummy performed the ritual (see Rebecca Lieb’s article in The Book of Joe).

2001
Someplace in Nowhere
Coleman’s opera. A film created by Coleman featuring his paintings. The first section, of humanscapes, was accompanied by the music of Carlo Gesualdo, Coleman’s favorite medieval composer and performed by a live choir, The Clerk’s Group. The second section, of portraits, was accompanied by specially composed music performed live by of The Delgados. “Outsider/Music” at the Barbican Theatre, London England.
Also performed at the 49th Festspillenei Bergen festival in Bergen, Norway, May 30, 31 2001. The choir was Nordic Voices. The Motorpsychos composed and performed the music for the portraits.

Film

1979-80
Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller
a film by Manuel DeLanda, co-written by Joe Coleman.

1982
Harmful or Fatal If Swallowed
a film by Manuel DeLanda. Joe Coleman wrote and, as voiceover, reads his “Blind Bum Poem” (the film was censored and this scene was later edited out; the filmmaker has referred to the Coleman cut as the “Extra-Strength Tylenol version”).

1985
Where Evil Dwells
written and directed by Tommy Turner and David Wojnarowicz. Coleman plays Satan to Rockets Redglare’s Jesus. (Video release is censored; at one point a geeking Coleman is pictured on tape with the proverbial black bar over his face.)

1987
Pranks! TV
produced by RE/search Publications, San Francisco. Andrea Juno interviews five of the featured artists in the Pranks! book, including Coleman, Karen Finley, Boyd Rice, Frank Discussion and Mark Pauline. Features rare footage from early Mombooze-o performances.

1988
Mondo New York
“Shockumentary” produced by Stuart Shapiro, directed by Harvey Keith. Coleman is featured in a preaching geek performance; filmed at Cuando, in New York, in 1987. (Video release was delayed pending the legal case against Coleman due to his filmed performance here.) Also featured, among others, Lydia Lunch, Karen Finley, and Ann Magnuson.

1990
Shadows in the City
directed by Ari Roussimoff. It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World of the Lower East Side meets Dante’s Inferno. Coleman plays Mephisto.

1992
Black Hearts Bleed Red
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.

1993
Trail of Blood
a film by Ari Roussimoff. Coleman plays a criminologist.

1997
R.I.P.: Rest in Pieces
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. The DVD of this film ,with extras, is available HERE.

1998
Clayton Patterson Presents: Joe Coleman
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).

2000
Collectors
a documentary about serial killer art collector/dealer Rick Staton by Julian Hobbs. Coleman appears as a talking head, along with his own collection and some of his paintings.

Scarlet Diva
a film by Asia Argento (Opera Films, produced by Dario and Claudio Argento). A semiautobiographical feature film with Coleman as a sleazy American film producer. The film garnered first prize at the Brooklyn Film Festival.

2003
Doppelganger
directed by Paris. A mockumentary about a Robert De Niro lookalike, Joe Manuela. Coleman plays a psychotic derelict who attempts to murder Manuela thinking he is the real De Niro.

Transgressive Art
a documentary by Angelique Bosio, produced in France. Coleman is featured, along with Lydia Lunch, Richard Kern, and others.

disinformation: The Complete Series
2-disc DVD set. Includes Richard Metzger’s interview with Joe, originally aired on the BBC. Other artists include Norbert Kox and Paul Laffoley.