The Genius

Release Date: 1993-04-02

Runtime: 86

Languages: English

Rating: 5

Votes: 1

Genres: Comedy | Crime | Science Fiction

Director: Emily Breer

Description: 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...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.Read More

Production Companies:

Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities

National Endowment for the Arts