Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

Career Award William Greaves

In William Greaves’s experimental, improvisational masterpiece, a second film crew documents the first while they record a series of actors reenacting the same breakup scene over and over again. Tempers flare and complications abound as the struggling crew rebels against Greaves’s refusal to define and chart the direction of the project. Set in Central Park in 1968, this cultural landmark is an insightful and riotous observation of the psychology of performance and the madness of moviemaking.

Director

William Greaves

Producers

William Greaves, Manuel Melamed

Release Year

1968

Festival Year

2008

Country

United States

Run Time

70 minutes