Movie Description

The Genius

(1993)

Overview

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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Facts

Original TitleThe Genius

Status Released

Release Information

  • 1993-04-02

Original LanguageEnglish

Production CompaniesMassachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities,National Endowment for the Arts,AFI,Boston Film/Video Foundation

Genres

  • Comedy
  • Crime
  • Science Fiction