The Genius

Comedy · 1993

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.

Starring

Peggy Ahwesh, Joe Gibbons, Peggy Ahwesh, Joe Gibbons, Karen Finley, Henry Hills, Keith Sanborn, Tony Oursler, Leslie Caron, Tony Conrad

Director

Joe Gibbons