The Genius (1993)
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.
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Cast
Karen Finley
as Kitty Church
Karen Finley is an American performance artist, musician and poet. Her performance art, recordings, and books are used as forms of activism. Her work frequently uses nudity and profanity..
Tony Oursler
as Les Alabaster
Tony Oursler’s expressionistic reveries incorporate phantasmagoric sets and rambling stream-of-diseased-consciousness narrative that serve to illustrate the depths of a psyche becoming unhinged. Oursl...
Adolfas Mekas
as Dr. Corbin
Adolfas Mekas (born on September 30th 1924 in Semeniskiai, Lithuania and died on May 31st 2011 in Poughkeepsie, New York) was a Lithuanian filmmaker, writer, director, editor, actor, educator and ment...
Camden Toy
as Manic Client
Camden Toy (May 31, 1955 – December 11, 2023) was an American actor, writer, film editor and psychotherapist..
Henry Hills
as TV Reporter
Henry Hills has made more than 30 experimental films and videos since 1975. He divides his time between New York, Vienna, & Porter Springs, GA. He is Visiting Professor at FAMU, the film academy in Pr...
Director
Emily Breer
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