Joe Gibbons
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.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.0239 |
| Birthday | 1953-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | Providence, Rhode Island, USA |
| Also Known As |
2002
Confessions of a Sociopath
10/1
Confessions of a Sociopath is an autobiographical film on digital video and Super 8 film, conceived as a real-life version of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last T...
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Confessions of a Sociopath
2022
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
0/0
This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system over the...
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Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
1999
Classics Exposed
0/0
The real story behind the classics Moby Dick and Metamorphosis starring Joe Gibbons.
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Classics Exposed
1995
Barbie's Audition
7/1
Gibbons plays the sleazy Director and lampoons the movie audition and its legendary corollary, the casting couch. Barbie is recast, not as the impossi...
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Barbie's Audition
1994
His Master's Voice
7/1
Gibbons presents a Son of Sam-like relationship between a man and his dog in which the man takes the dog to task for the terrible things he has made h...
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His Master's Voice
2002
The Stepfather
0/0
When Barbie's estranged stepfather Joe tries to quash her romance with young beau Ken, the fur flies.
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The Stepfather
1991
Sabotaging Spring
10/1
Gibbons enters the woods to begin his destructive campaign against spring, snapping the buds off trees while babbling maniacally. SABOTAGING SPRING is...
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Sabotaging Spring
2001
Final Exit
7/1
An aged one is confronted with his options in blunt terms. Does he want to drag out his existence, increasingly infirm and a burden to his caretakers,...
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Final Exit
1991
Elegy
10/1
It’s the first day of autumn, and Gibbons can already smell death in the air. Leading us and his dog Woody on a walk through a cemetery, Gibbons voice...
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Elegy
1998
Multiple Barbie
9/1
In an attempt to re-integrate Barbie’s personality, fragmented from the trauma of parental sexual transgression and compounded by an abusive relations...
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Multiple Barbie
1994
Pretty Boy
3/3
Tension between a man and his handsome young rival (a Ken doll) erupts into violence. Their interaction devolves from a series of tussles to a spankin...
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Pretty Boy
1985
Living in the World
8/1
An auto-documentary about a disenfranchised Everyman and his struggle to re-integrate himself into society. He fails and turns to crime.
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Living in the World
1993
The Genius
7/2
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...
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The Genius
How to Rob Banks for Dummies
0/0
After several bank robberies carried out in the name of art (and money), video artist and former MIT professor Joseph Gibbons leaves prison, re-enters...
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How to Rob Banks for Dummies
Heretic
0/0
Heretic is composed from the outtakes of Joe Gibbons's no-budget feature The Genius, set to John Zorn's Naked City "soundtrack" album Heretic, and rec...
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Heretic
1997
The Phony Trilogy
0/0
A real-time video-meets-digital animation trilogy of shorts featuring the highly excited (and mildly delusional) Joe Gibbons. Brilliant computer anima...
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