Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes (The Criterion Collection

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In William Greaves’s spontaneous, one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, Greaves presides over a beleaguered troupe of camera and sound men in New York’s Central Park in 1967.

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Director William Greaves, who based Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One on the social science term “symbiotaxiplasm,” signifying that all human-involved events influence their environment and vice versa, made this sophisticated film that captures the sexual dynamics of a feuding couple in a park by filming everything that occurs around them, including dramas among the film crew. This meta-film, radically experimental for its era, paved the way for the “making-of” films so popular now, though Symbio is more editorially ambitious. Its plot is complicated by inserted footage of Greaves’ crew’s “mutiny” as they covertly film criticisms of the director as a way to vent frustrations about the film’s c