[IMC-Editorial] Joe Coleman: REST IN PIECES

[The Disinformation Company]

Joe Coleman: REST IN PIECES
New York and Los Angeles based The Disinformation Company announces second
release in their new line of Underground Culture DVDs

“A riveting examination of an artist who refuses to paint–or play–on the
mainstream canvas... squirm-inducing." –New York Post

"His art is some of the best around these days." –Robert Crumb, artist and
star of “Crumb”

July 29, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, VSDA’s Home Entertainment 2003—

Watch out this year for a repeat performance by The Disinformation
Company's new home video division. Hot on the heels of their first DVD
release DISINFORMATION: THE COMPLETE SERIES, the team at The
Disinformation Company announced an October 15 release date for REST IN
PIECES, a feature-length documentary portrait of apocalyptic painter Joe
Coleman.

“We were incredibly happy to acquire rights to REST IN PIECES,” said The
Disinformation Company president Gary Baddeley, “and we’re look forward to
creating the same wave of shock and awe within the video industry as we
have in book publishing.”

Baddeley promises shock and awe will be one of the milder effect of the
company’s second contribution to home video entertainment. REST IN PIECES
documents the life and passion of Joe Coleman, a nice, idealistic Catholic
boy who survived a surreal, twisted upbringing surrounded by love and
violence, and eventually settled on becoming an artist after abandoning
early dreams of mass murder.

Now in his 40’s and just beginning to receive mainstream recognition, Joe
paints inhumanly detailed masterworks commissioned by patrons in the
international art world and celebrity admirers like Iggy Pop, Leonardo
DiCaprio and Johnny Depp. His tools: magnifying glasses and a single-hair
paintbrush to create visual intricacies that match the complexity of his
imagination.

The film follows Joe through deserted New York City streets, an autopsy
room in Budapest and live performances where he blows himself up with
dynamite. Director Robert Pejo pieces together a portrait of his subject
through interviews with Joe, his therapist, ex-lovers, his publisher and
the filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. Pejo delves into the intimate folds of
Coleman’s bizarre personal life, taking his camera into the artist’s home
to film his family—photographer wife Whitney Ward and the couple’s adopted
son “Junior,” a deformed baby preserved inside a jar of formaldehyde.

This special Disinformation DVD release of REST IN PIECES also contains
these exclusive extras:

•	Joe Coleman Opera – an intricate look at Joe’s work 
•	Film Diva Asia Argento on Joe’s influence on her work and life
•	Film outtakes
•	Interview with Joe’s photographer wife Whitney Ward

Joe Coleman also features, along with underground luminaries Robert Anton
Wilson, Marilyn Manson, comics genius Grant Morrison, cult filmmaker
Kenneth Anger and others on the first Disinformation DVD release,
DISINFORMATION: THE COMPLETE SERIES, the legendary banned TV series hosted
by Disinformation’s own Richard Metzger.

Title: REST IN PIECES
Director: Robert Pejo
Running Time: 89 minutes & 21 minutes of extras
SRLP: $19.95
Catalog No. DIS003
UPC: 82626200003-5

For more information, or to set up an interview with Robert Pejo or Joe
Coleman, please contact Ralph Bernardo at 212-691-1605 (tel.) 212-473-8096
(fax) or dvd at disinfo.com

About The Disinformation Company Ltd.
The Disinformation Company Ltd. was formed in 1997 and has offices in New
York and Los Angeles. It has an award-winning website at www.disinfo.com,
is the producer of the “Disinformation” television series shown on the
UK’s Channel 4 and the publisher of books such as YOU ARE BEING LIED TO
and EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG. Its home video division was formed in
2003 and aims to release 3-5 DVDs in 2004.

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