SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE

It is 1968 and William 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 – explodes on screen producing the energy, and the insights, that the director is searching for. Greaves uses multiple cameras, mixes cinema verité and conventional shooting styles and experiments with a variety of other cinematic techniques including the use of simultaneous split-screen images. The result is a film with multiple levels of reality that reveals, and comments upon, the creative process.

Before ]]>Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One]]> there will be a screening of the short film Menschen am Sonntag.