Overview - The Genius

Date of release

Genres

  • Comedy
  • Crime
  • Science Fiction

Runtime: 86 minutes

Homepage: The Genius

Budget

Budget data not disclosed

Revenue

Revenue data not disclosed

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities

    Production country

  • Name: National Endowment for the Arts

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: AFI

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Boston Film/Video Foundation

    Production country

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

  • Name: Joe Gibbons

    Character: Desmond Denton

    Popularity: 0.1037

  • Name: Karen Finley

    Character: Kitty Church

    Popularity: 0.2792

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  • Name: Tony Oursler

    Character: Les Alabaster

    Popularity: 0.1202

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  • Name: Tony Conrad

    Character: Dirk Dirkson

    Popularity: 0.1718

  • Name: Adolfas Mekas

    Character: Dr. Corbin

    Popularity: 0.3194

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  • Name: Camden Toy

    Character: Manic Client

    Popularity: 0.3186

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  • Name: Henry Hills

    Character: TV Reporter

    Popularity: 0.2351

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  • Name: Mark MacElhattan

    Character: Depressed Client

    Popularity: 0.0256