The Church of the Little Green Man is a conceptual art practice that emerged from the East Village performance art scene. This is Mike Osterhout’s church. His approach is raw, provocative, and gleefully absurd. In his heart, however, he thrives on human connections. His devotion to his community has allowed him to create a home for his congregation and a safe place to transgress in the Catskills.

"Not every church has a stripper pole, so I should have known this wouldn’t be straightforward. But, during that summer of 2017, when I first met Mike Osterhout, I didn’t know that the Church of the Little Green Man wasn’t a church at all.

I started out to make a movie about a faux-religion, but I ended up exploring the seminal performance art scene that emerged in the East Village in the nineteen eighties and tracing its legacy to a tiny church hidden in the Catskills. I started out to make a movie about an artist, but I discovered the power of art to build a community." - Roderick Angle