R.I.P Rest in Pieces is an intimate portrait of artist Joe Coleman, who is known around the world as a shamanic, moral voice diagnosing the ills of 21st century America. Coleman holds nothing back, telling us of a world wracked with tumorous cities, perversion, divorce, violence, atomic bombs, and a human race destroying itself simply because we are born.
Acting
Coleman's monologues—performance art masquerading as interview
Direction
Pejo lets Joe be Joe, no sanitizing filter
Cinematography
Paintings shot like crime scene evidence
Director
Robert-Adrian Pejo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Coleman coined 'Maniac Expressionism' for his style, and literally blew himself up onstage regularly—this was pre-YouTube performance art when bodily risk meant something.
The film captures Coleman just before 9/11 made his apocalyptic visions feel prophetic rather than paranoid; his 'tumorous cities' line hits different now.
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