Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

1968

Action / Documentary

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 88% · 16 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 76% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 2964 3K

big city avant-garde filmmaking cameraman cinéma vérité non-narrative

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Plot summary

In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation between a couple: he demands to know what's wrong, she challenges his sexual orientation. Cameras shoot the exchange, and another camera records Greaves and his crew. Sometimes we watch the crew discussing this scene, its language, and the process of making a movie. Is there such a thing as natural language? Are all things related to sex? The camera records distractions - a woman rides horseback past them; a garrulous homeless vet who sleeps in the park chats them up. What's the nature of making a movie?

Director

William Greaves Photo
William Greaves

Top cast

Terence Macartney-Filgate Photo
Terence Macartney-Filgate as Self - Cameraman
Susan Anspach Photo
Susan Anspach as Self - Actress Testing for Alice
Don Fellows Photo
Don Fellows as Self - Actor Testing for Freddy
Stevan Larner Photo
Stevan Larner as Self - Cameraman
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692.45 MB
968*720
English 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 15 min
Seeds 2
1.26 GB
1440*1072
English 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 15 min
Seeds 23

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dave s 7 / 10

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One is an odd little experimental

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One is an odd little experimental film, a documentary of a documentary of a film shoot in New York's Central Park. Filmmaker William Greaves seems to knowingly torment his crew and actors with ineptitude and a general lack of guidance, resulting in frustration and bewilderment from his unwitting victims. Playing a bit like an episode of Candid Camera, it's an entertaining look at the potential mayhem of a film shoot, reminiscent of Truffaut's Day for Night or Fellini's 8 ½. It's sort of fun to watch once you figure out the angle that Greaves is taking, but the last five minutes or so seems out of place.
Reviewed by Simon T 6 / 10

Chaotic documentary about the filming of a chaotic

Chaotic documentary about the filming of a chaotic low budget experimental semi-improvised dialogue in Central Park. Imagine Frederick Wiseman had shot This is Spinal Tap: this is completely different. Many of the crew seem to be intelligently aware of the shortcomings of the project, but their director's ego seems to convince them to hang in there. For some reason there's a part two.
Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

This incomparably unique hybrid documentary deconstructs the filmma...

This incomparably unique hybrid documentary deconstructs the filmmaking process, layer by layer and to the nth degree, while creating drama and discord through subtle nudges and overt orchestrations by director/puppetmaster William Greaves. I'd ask anyone to name a film that provides a similar experience (aside from Take 2.5 which I will now be seeking out as well) as I found this to be such a one-off and so incredibly refreshing once I had a better idea of what was going on. 8.5/10 TLDR: Cameras filming cameras, filming cameras, filming screen tests.
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