Joe Gibbons
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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1953
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Confessions of a Sociopath
2002-01-01
Confessions of a Sociopath
Overview: 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 Tape. In this film, Joe Gibbons plays a fictionalized version of himself as he discovers a roomful of Super 8 footage from his own life, detailing events he can no longer recall. This footage shows his earlier film experiments, his descent into destructive behavior, and his “bottoming out” on drugs and alcohol. At a certain point, the films are replaced by random photos, police records, and psychiatric hospital records.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022-09-21
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
Overview: This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system over the years. From the historically important to the utterly (and sublimely) absurd, they feature a cast of characters ranging from legendary avant-garde filmmakers, scholars, and other cultural figures to civilians whose legend has (until now) been confined to the offices of Anthology, thanks precisely to their witty, eloquent, eccentric – or in some cases unforgettably psychotic – voicemails. We’ve toyed with the idea of sharing these messages in some form for years, and the “Imageless Films” series provides a perfect pretext.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-21
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Classics Exposed
1999-01-01
Classics Exposed
Overview: The real story behind the classics Moby Dick and Metamorphosis starring Joe Gibbons.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Barbie's Audition
1995-01-01
Barbie's Audition
Overview: Gibbons plays the sleazy Director and lampoons the movie audition and its legendary corollary, the casting couch. Barbie is recast, not as the impossible-to-attain ideal beauty, but as the victim of sexual harassment and exploitation.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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His Master's Voice
1994-01-01
His Master's Voice
Overview: 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 him do.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Stepfather
2002-11-21
The Stepfather
Overview: When Barbie's estranged stepfather Joe tries to quash her romance with young beau Ken, the fur flies.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-21
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Sabotaging Spring
1991-01-01
Sabotaging Spring
Overview: Gibbons enters the woods to begin his destructive campaign against spring, snapping the buds off trees while babbling maniacally. SABOTAGING SPRING is an impressionistic peek at Gibbons’s paranoid fancy; he explains the facts of life, evolution, and whistling to his dog Woody.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Final Exit
2001-01-01
Final Exit
Overview: 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, or go quietly before resentment overwhelms sentiment? Does he wish to go on living, the quality of his life increasingly diminishing, or be euthanized? Would he prefer cremation or burial? This video confronts the issues of mortality and advancing decrepitude that faces even the friskiest.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Elegy
1991-01-01
Elegy
Overview: 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 voices his obsessive thoughts of death and destruction. Waxing weirdly philosophical, Gibbons satirically tries to impress the concept of mortality on his dog; the video, shot in Pixelvision, approximates his dog’s black-and-white vision.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Multiple Barbie
1998-01-01
Multiple Barbie
Overview: In an attempt to re-integrate Barbie’s personality, fragmented from the trauma of parental sexual transgression and compounded by an abusive relationship with her boyfriend Ken, a therapist opens a Pandora’s Box of psychopathy.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Pretty Boy
1994-01-01
Pretty Boy
Overview: 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 spanking.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Living in the World
1985-01-01
Living in the World
Overview: An auto-documentary about a disenfranchised Everyman and his struggle to re-integrate himself into society. He fails and turns to crime.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Genius
1993-04-02
The Genius
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-02
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How to Rob Banks for Dummies
How to Rob Banks for Dummies
Overview: 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 the art world, and tries to go straight for the very first time.
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Original Language: en
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