Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

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Filmmaker William Greaves is shooting a series of screen tests in New York City's Central Park for the two leads of a feature length movie, with the working title of "Over the Cliff". Simultaneously, he has a documentary filmmaking crew filming the behind the scenes making of the movie. In addition to seeing these two sets of footage (the film and the film of the film), the viewer also sees footage of a third film crew filming the these two in relation to what is happening ov... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One:

Patricia Ree Gilbert
Don Fellows
Jonathan Gordon
William Greaves
Susan Anspach
Audrey Heningham

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Filmmaker William Greaves is shooting a series of screen tests in New York City's Central Park for the two leads of a feature length movie, with the working title of "Over the Cliff". Simultaneously, he has a documentary filmmaking crew filming the behind the scenes making of the movie. In addition to seeing these two sets of footage (the film and the film of the film), the viewer also sees footage of a third film crew filming the these two in relation to what is happening overall as they film in the park while real life goes on around them, which in Bill's mind is part of the realism of the movie. "Over the Cliff" itself has no plot and no full script but only a working concept of sexuality being the movie's theme and snippets of scripted dialogue. This unstructured approach is to give the movie a sense of realism. The actors imply as much, but many of the crew, discussing in Grieves-less bullpen sessions, believe Greaves is unfocused and inept at what he is doing, while a minority believe his experimental process will yield a special and great end product.

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Combustible Celluloid - 10/10 by Jeffrey M. AndersonIt's a puzzle without an answer; and the most fascinating element of all is Greaves himself.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - 8/10 by Duane DudekIt is the film equivalent of watching sausage or legislation being made, whose experimental flavor is an acquired taste.
Boxoffice Magazine - 8/10 by Wade MajorIn blurring the lines between art and artifice, truth and fiction, illusion and reality, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One ventures into uncertain terrain that few films, before or since, have dared even contemplate.
New Yorker - 7/10 by Richard BrodyOne of the greatest movies about moviemaking.
User Review - 10/10 by Jurgen Hi want to make theatre...make art in general like bill greaves. i can't believe this guy came out of the actor's studio. so much more playful and imaginative in the search for realtiy through the artifice of film
User Review - 10/10 by Rory PCannot read the "WTF" title? Repeat with me: Symbio Psycho Taxi-plasm There you go! Before I proceed, it is important to understand my personal differentiation between a documentary and a film. A film is a work of fiction, not necessarily based on real life. It is something staged, planned and acted. It is NOT reality captured at the moment. A synonym for film is "movie". A documentary is not acted nor staged (with extremely rare exceptions). You cannot plan all aspects of a documentary, because it captures reality at the moment. Therefore, the people appearing do not portray any other people, characters or personifications. Finally, the term meta refers to any media that portrays the same media within it. Example: 8 1/2 (1963) is a metafilm. When I mention either one term or the other, please take it in its literal form. Originated from Arthur F. Bentley's book Inquiry Into Inquiries: Essays in Social Theory, Greaves redefined the term "Symbiotaxiplasm" as "those events that transpire in the course of anyone's life that have an impact on the consciousness and the psyche of the average human being, and how that human being also controls or effects changes or has an impact on the environment". The purpose of adding "psycho" to the abstract terminology is to emphasize the fact that the perception of reality occurs in the mind of the spectator, and the thoughts and emotions it causes in the audience are random variables. With these complex scientific foundations, the vision for Symbiopsychotaxiplasm is born. In short, the documentary features the director William Greaves filming a movie with a pair of actors. The working title is "Over the Cliff". We see how the scenes are shot, but we also see how the scenes are being cut, and then we can appreciate the actual filming crew filming the film (the structure allows me to be intentionally reiterative, so brace yourself). While we see the filming crew filming the film, another third crew also instructed by William Greaves is in charge of documenting the documentation of the second crew, which is actually documenting the filming of the first crew. In this sense, therefore, we have the following levels of cinematic reality and suprareality: - A fictional film, that is, fiction over fiction, because the movie is fictional, and a movie, by definition, is fiction. This is represented by the first film crew. This is not reality. Level 1. - A documentary about a fictional fiction (that is, the film), which rises us up to a higher level of "reality", because we have already fallen into the concept of documentary. This is represented by the second film crew. This is already reality. Level 2. The director William Greaves decided to remain at this level. - A metadocumentary about the documentary depicting the creative process of making a film. This is the highest level of reality. The crew has several discussions throughout regarding the lack of focus and directing talents of William Greaves they have noticed, and about how everything might actually be a metafilm experiment by Greaves who might be secretly pulling everybody's strings without nobody or just few noticing it, including their own. They are not sure, but they suspect it. Level 3. For adding to the complexity, we have also more details: - The fictional film "Over the Cliff" circles around sexual thematic material. - The documentary about the film (Level 2) has sexual connotations, and Greaves intentionally films them. - The Level 3 crew discusses that Greaves is in the possibility of editing the three different footages in an infinite number of ways, just in case that we were actually dealing with a meta-experiment. - The Level 3 crew also discusses that, every time that the camera rolled, Greaves would transform to a more extroverted character, but the fact is, he is normally more serious and quiet. He is clearly acting. What is he acting for? Why? This is, beyond all doubt and reason, one of the most brilliant concepts ever applied to the film-making world. The most genius aspect about this experiment, beyond playing with the levels of our perception, is that we are not sure of ANYTHING. What if everything was acted?? What if everything was a film, and we were stuck in a Level 1 fiction all the time? What if the Level 3 crew is acting? They mentioned the possibility themselves. Although very unlikely, the are infinite layers of filtering information. At least three layers separate us from Greaves' directorial mind, but we understood the point. You see? Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One might be a good-for-nothing project, because we are not sure of anything, but we are sure of its message, and it that sense, it is a very useful project. Damn you, Greaves! 99/100
User Review - 10/10 by Erik GIt's kind of hard to describe this without making it sound like hippie nonsense, but Greaves set out to make a film that would annihilate all accepted boundaries by being about its own making. Improbably, he succeeded.
User Review - 10/10 by Gregory WWaaaaaaaay ahead of its time. A holy grail of sorts for any filmmaker or fan of cinema.
User Review - 10/10 by Tony OThis is a comment on "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2" but it is not listed independently on Mubi. The genius is that the creative control fluidly shifts not only between the actors, directors, producers and crew, but also the viewer, making the film one of the more engrossing, collaborative experiences you will ever have from the comfort of your own couch. Any attempt to assign meaning to the process is an attempt to exert creative control over the end product. As such, this review is as much a part of the movie as anything on the DVD. 5 out of 5 stars.
User Review - 10/10 by Kinohi NOne of the greatest experimental docs around.

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