The Genius (1993) — comedy, crime, science-fiction film. Directed by Emily Breer, Joe Gibbons. Starring Joe Gibbons, Karen Finley, Tony Oursler, Tony Conrad. This page maps 8 characters and 10 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A scientist's personality-copying invention transforms romantic desire into a violent revolt against cultural and artistic control.
Comedy, Crime, Science Fiction · 7/10 · 86 min · 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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