The Genius
The Genius
Release: 1993-04-02
·Runtime: 86m
·★ 5.0
Comedy
Crime
Science Fiction
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
National Endowment for the Arts
AFI
Boston Film/Video Foundation
