The Genius

5|1993|0h 0m| EN

Overview: 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.

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Science Fiction

Director: Emily Breer

Votes: 1

Production Companies:

Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities

National Endowment for the Arts

AFI

Boston Film/Video Foundation