Durch die Nacht mit... " (2002) (aka "Into the night with...") is an award winning series produced for ZDF/ARTE since 2002. The series matches artists from different fields to spend an evening together in a city of their choice. The idea is to create a forum for artists to exchange ideas and also show them as real people. Various locations and surprises evoke spontaneous reactions and interactions between the artists, cameras that operate fly-on-the-wall-like add to the unusual high level of authenticity and realness. In this episode American painter and performance artist Joe Coleman choses Italian actress and film director Asia Argento as his date for the night.