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The Genius (1993)
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.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Science Fiction
Cast: Joe Gibbons, Karen Finley, Tony Oursler, Tony Conrad, Adolfas Mekas, Camden Toy
Crew: Emily Breer (Director), Emily Breer (Editor), Joe Gibbons (Director), Peggy Ahwesh (Additional Lighting Technician), Joe Gibbons (Producer), Corinne Mallet (Online Editor)
Subtitle: ETC.
Release: Apr 02, 1993
Popularity: 1.28
Language: English
Studio: Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, AFI, Boston Film/Video Foundation
Country: United States of America