Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One by William Greaves

Driven by abstraction, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm is a definitive statement on the conceptual complexities of making movies. The film follows a crew in New York City’s Central Park directed by Greaves. As time passes, those on set become unsure about the nature of the movie they were hired to make. The film defies categorization: Two actors playing a couple break up in repeated takes, an external documentary crew begins to film Greaves’s crew, and passersby intersperse their own dialogue into the shoot. A score by Miles Davis punctuates the kaleidoscopic layers of narrative and image in this mirror of the political and psychological tensions of the late 1960s. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One is Greaves’s most celebrated questioning of the legibility of reality and the practice of artistic production. 1968, US, 35mm, 75 min.  

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