The Genius (1993)

7.0/10 86 min Comedy Crime Science Fiction

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.

Cast

Karen Finley

Kitty Church

Tony Oursler

Les Alabaster

Adolfas Mekas

Dr. Corbin

Camden Toy

Manic Client

Henry Hills

TV Reporter

Lewis Klahr

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