The Genius

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.

Average Score : 50

Status: Released

Release Date: 1993-04-02

Geners Comedy Crime Science Fiction

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

Production Countries United States of America,

Run time: 86 minutes

Budget: --

Revenue: --