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.

The Genius (1993)
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Joe Gibbons
Desmond Denton

Karen Finley
Kitty Church

Tony Oursler
Les Alabaster

Tony Conrad
Dirk Dirkson

Adolfas Mekas
Dr. Corbin

Camden Toy
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Henry Hills
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Mark MacElhattan
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