The Genius

1993 • 1h 26m • Comedy, Crime, Science Fiction

7.0(2 votes)

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.

Director

Emily Breer, Joe Gibbons

Writers

Joe Gibbons

Status

Released