The Genius
Release Date: 1993-04-02
Rating : 5/10
Duration : 86 minutes
Genres : Comedy, Crime, Science Fiction
Director : Emily Breer, Joe Gibbons
Writer : Joe Gibbons
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
Joe Gibbons
Karen Finley
Tony Oursler
Tony Conrad
Adolfas Mekas
Camden Toy