Joe Gibbons
Birthday: 1953-01-01
Place of Birth: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Biography: 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.
Movies
Confessions of a Sociopath
Confessions of a Sociopath is an autobiographical film on digital video and Super 8 film, conceived ...
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Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that...
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Classics Exposed
The real story behind the classics Moby Dick and Metamorphosis starring Joe Gibbons....
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Final Exit
An aged one is confronted with his options in blunt terms. Does he want to drag out his existence, i...
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His Master's Voice
Gibbons presents a Son of Sam-like relationship between a man and his dog in which the man takes the...
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Multiple Barbie
In an attempt to re-integrate Barbie’s personality, fragmented from the trauma of parental sexual tr...
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Pretty Boy
Tension between a man and his handsome young rival (a Ken doll) erupts into violence. Their interact...
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Sabotaging Spring
Gibbons enters the woods to begin his destructive campaign against spring, snapping the buds off tre...
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Barbie's Audition
Gibbons plays the sleazy Director and lampoons the movie audition and its legendary corollary, the c...
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Elegy
It’s the first day of autumn, and Gibbons can already smell death in the air. Leading us and his dog...
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The Stepfather
When Barbie's estranged stepfather Joe tries to quash her romance with young beau Ken, the fur flies...
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Living in the World
An auto-documentary about a disenfranchised Everyman and his struggle to re-integrate himself into s...
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The Genius
A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, w...
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How to Rob Banks for Dummies
After several bank robberies carried out in the name of art (and money), video artist and former MIT...
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Heretic
Heretic is composed from the outtakes of Joe Gibbons's no-budget feature The Genius, set to John Zor...
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The Phony Trilogy
A real-time video-meets-digital animation trilogy of shorts featuring the highly excited (and mildly...
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