The Genius

The Genius

7.0 1993 | 86 min

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.

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PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
AFI
AFI
Boston Film/Video Foundation
Boston Film/Video Foundation
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United States of America

Spoken Languages:

English
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