The Genius

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.

Directed by Emily Breer, Joe Gibbons

Top cast

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Joe Gibbons

Desmond Denton

Karen Finley

Kitty Church

Tony Oursler

Les Alabaster

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Tony Conrad

Dirk Dirkson

Adolfas Mekas

Dr. Corbin

Camden Toy

Manic Client

Henry Hills

TV Reporter

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Mark MacElhattan

Depressed Client

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Corinne Mallet

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Mike Ousterhout

Psycho Client

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Albert McCreery

Casanova Client

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Jay Barry

Art Collector Client

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Keith Sanborn

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Jennifer Montgomery

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Steve Gallagher

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Romy Charlesworth

Lewis Klahr

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Heather McAdams

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