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.

Cast

Joe Gibbons

Desmond Denton

Karen Finley

Kitty Church

Tony Oursler

Les Alabaster

Tony Conrad

Dirk Dirkson

Adolfas Mekas

Dr. Corbin

Camden Toy

Manic Client

Henry Hills

TV Reporter

Mark MacElhattan

Depressed Client

Corinne Mallet

Mike Ousterhout

Psycho Client