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The Genius(1993)
Status: Released
Date: 1993-04-02
50%
1 Votes
Time: 1h 26m
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
National Endowment for the Arts
Boston Film/Video Foundation
Movie: The Genius
Top 10 Billed Cast
Karen Finley
Kitty Church
Tony Oursler
Les Alabaster
Adolfas Mekas
Dr. Corbin
Camden Toy
Manic Client
Henry Hills
TV Reporter
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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.
Release Date
1993-04-02
Average
5
Rating:
2.5 startsTagline
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Languages:
English
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