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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One is a 1968 American experimental documentary film written, directed, co-produced and edited by filmmaker and documentarian William Greaves. The film is shot and presented in the style of a cinéma vérité documentary, attempting to capture and examine pure reality unhindered by the presence of the cameras all around.
A 1968 experimental film by William Greaves that combines a fictional drama, a documentary of its making, and a third layer of filming the first two. The film explores themes of sexuality, reality, and cinema in New York City's Central Park.
A film about making films, featuring a couple breaking up in Central Park and a crew filming a crew filming them. The 1968 original and the 2005 sequel explore the themes of art, reality, and time in a fiction/documentary hybrid.
Feb 5, 2015 · That’s what happened in 1968, when William Greaves filmed one of the most daring and original movies of the time, “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One.”
Dec 10, 2006 · Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One trailer, directed by William Greaves. Now on Criterion DVD. www.williamgreaves.com
Nov 1, 2020 · Cinéma vérité reaches a new level of reality in Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1971, 75 mins.), a film-within-a-film in which director William Greaves dares to break the accepted rules of cinema. It’s 1968 and Greaves and his crew are in New York’s Central Park ostensibly filming a screen test.
Jan 27, 2005 · A sequel to his 1968 experimental film, Greaves revisits the same scene of a marital argument in Central Park with the same actors and crew. He explores the boundaries between reality and fiction, and the power dynamics of filmmaking, in this provocative and acclaimed work.
