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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.
Most Popular Joe Gibbons Trailers
Total trailers found: 26
02 April 1993
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.
01 January 2002
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.
01 January 1999
The real story behind the classics Moby Dick and Metamorphosis starring Joe Gibbons.
15 July 1980
A portrait of a filmmaker confessing his remorse at the scandalous manner in which he gathered material for his voyeuristic film, Spying.
01 January 1995
Gibbons plays the sleazy Director and lampoons the movie audition and its legendary corollary, the casting couch.
09 September 1979
A film by Joe Gibbons
01 January 1989
Film by Joe Gibbons from 1976-1989
01 January 1991
Gibbons enters the woods to begin his destructive campaign against spring, snapping the buds off trees while babbling maniacally.
22 November 2007
Joe Gibbons plays Dr. Joe Baldwin, the self-styled child education expert who prepares Zoe from birth, for acceptance into a coveted gifted-only kindergarten program.
01 January 1998
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.
15 July 2010
Shot with a cell-phone camera, focuses on the sound of rain and visuals of pretty, multicolored lights blurred in a watery car window.
01 January 1994
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.
06 June 1976
A film by Joe Gibbons
01 January 1999
Psychologically disturbed Professor Herville (Joe Gibbons) analyzes the literary classic Moby Dick. He gives a tour of the Herman Melville Museum and makes much ado about the book’s Oedipial themes.
01 January 2001
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.
17 June 2010
A man who has devoted his life to tending roses finally confronts his love objects, castigating them for their preening self-regard and disregard of his own feelings, resulting in a violent catharsis.
01 January 1994
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.
01 January 1985
An auto-documentary about a disenfranchised Everyman and his struggle to re-integrate himself into society.
08 August 1978
Spying is equal parts diary film, structural film and conceptual film. The filmmaker “spies” on neighbors, passersby and day workers—whomever is visible from the vantage point of his camera as he gazes across the San Francisco cityscape.
01 January 1990
As recent state cut-backs force many mental patients out into the real world, Tony Oursler and Joe Gibbons team up to address psychiatric deinstitutionalization from a comic angle.
01 January 1991
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.
21 September 2022
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.
21 November 2002
When Barbie's estranged stepfather Joe tries to quash her romance with young beau Ken, the fur flies.
21 January 1997
A real-time video-meets-digital animation trilogy of shorts featuring the highly excited (and mildly delusional) Joe Gibbons.
09 September 1979
"Seldom has depression been played to such comic effect .... The camera sits on a tripod considering Gibbons as he hunches over his kitchen table, slugging vodka, chain smoking, and toying aimlessly with a half-eaten potato.
08 August 1980
A documentary shot in SF circa 1979 about a trio of middle-class kids experimenting with heroin and cocaine.
