The Genius

1993 5.0 (1 votes) 1h 26m

Genres

Comedy Crime Science Fiction

Production Companies

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

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.