The Genius

04/02/1993

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1hr 26min

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Comedy

,Crime

,Science Fiction

STORY

A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons, who also plays one of the lead parts. Gibbons plays a mad scientist who's developed a technique for transferring personalities from one person's body to another; he becomes obsessed with an outlaw artist (played by performance artist Karen Finley) who destroys paintings in various galleries as a form of anarchist, anticapitalist protest.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Joe Gibbons
  • Karen Finley
  • Tony Oursler
  • Tony Conrad
  • Adolfas Mekas

    Directors

  • Emily Breer
  • Joe Gibbons
  • Peggy Ahwesh

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • AFI
  • Boston Film/Video Foundation

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English