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The Genius

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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.

Director: Emily Breer

Production Companies:

  • Massachusetts Council on the Arts and HumanitiesMassachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
  • National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the Arts
  • AFIAFI
  • Boston Film/Video FoundationBoston Film/Video Foundation