The Genius

4/2/1993Released

4/2/1993Theatrical

The Genius(1993)

ComedyCrimeScience FictionRated 86 min.

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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OriginUnited States of America

Languagesen

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

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