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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

William Greaves In Person – March 24
Screening on Film
Directed by William Greaves.
With Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don Fellows, William Greaves.
US, 1968, 35mm, color, 70 min.

In this film-within-a-film, director William Greaves dares to break the accepted rules of cinema. It is 1968 and Greaves and his crew are in New York’s Central Park, ostensibly filming a screen test. The drama involves a bitter break up between a married couple, but this is just the “cover story.”  The real story is happening “off” camera, as the enigmatic director pursues his hidden agenda.  The growing conflict and chaos—accompanied by moments of uproarious humor—explode on-screen, producing the energy, and the insights, that the director is searching for.  Mixing multiple cameras, split-screen images, and cinema-verité and conventional shooting styles, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One offers multiple levels of reality that reveal, and comment upon, the creative process. 

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