Joe Gibbons is an American artist and filmmaker known for his experimental autobiographical films that blend reality and fiction.
His works, such as Confessions of a Sociopath (2002), often feature a character named Joe Gibbons, blurring the lines between his personal life and artistic persona.
Gibbons has taught at institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been recognized with fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
His innovative approach to filmmaking challenges traditional narrative structures and offers a unique perspective on self-representation.
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.
An auto-documentary about a disenfranchised Everyman and his struggle to re-integrate himself into society. He fails and turns to crime.