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The Genius (1993)

The Genius (1993)

Science Fiction Crime Comedy
Release Date: 1993, April 2
Directors: Joe Gibbons, Emily Breer
Countries: United States of America
Production: Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, AFI, Boston Film/Video Foundation
Cast: Karen Finley, Camden Toy, Adolfas Mekas, Jay Barry, Mark MacElhattan, Mike Ousterhout, Albert McCreery

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.