The Genius
movie
View on VideBits →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
Adolfas Mekas · Camden Toy · Corinne Mallet · Henry Hills · Joe Gibbons · Karen Finley · Mark MacElhattan · Mike Ousterhout · Tony Conrad · Tony Oursler · Emily Breer
Studios & networks
AFI · Boston Film/Video Foundation · Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities · National Endowment for the Arts