The Genius

Name: The Genius
Cast: Joe Gibbons, Karen Finley, Tony Oursler, Tony Conrad, Adolfas Mekas

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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.

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Cast & Crew

Directors: Emily Breer, Joe Gibbons

Joe Gibbons

as Desmond Denton

Karen Finley

as Kitty Church

Tony Oursler

as Les Alabaster

Tony Conrad

as Dirk Dirkson

Adolfas Mekas

as Dr. Corbin

Camden Toy

as Manic Client

Henry Hills

as TV Reporter

Mark MacElhattan

as Depressed Client

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