Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

Monday, October 31, 2022

DCP Projection

In his one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM TAKE ONE, director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York’s Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they’re making. A couple enacts a break-up scenario over and over, a documentary crew films a crew filming the crew, locals wander casually into the frame: the project defies easy description. Yet this wildly innovative sixties counterculture landmark remains one of the most tightly focused and insightful movies ever made about making movies.

Screening as part of a 7-film retrospective accompanying Elvis Mitchell’s IS THAT BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU?!?

• Year 1988
• Running Time 75 minutes
• Format DCP
• Distributor Janus
• Director William Greaves
• Cast William Greaves, Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don Fellows
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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