This experimental documentary-which includes interviews with Avital Ronnell, Oliver Sacks, and Merce Cunningham-explores pilgrim mathematician Paul Erdős, Hellen Keller, and the philosophical ideas of genius and stupidity.
Benita Raphan created Great Genius and Profound Stupidity as the fourth in a series of films on visionaries that were generally considered to be "the future." The others are Absence Stronger Than Presence (2000), 2+2 (2002), and The Critical Path (2004).