Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) on Netflix
NR19681h 15mDocumentary
In Central Park, a film crew shoots a screen test of two actors: he wants to know what is wrong, she questions his sexuality. Three crews record all of it.
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Plot summary
A production gathers in Central Park to shoot an audition for a fictional documentary called Over the Cliff. One crew follows the actors through a scene about a couple in conflict; the second crew films the first; the third films whatever fits the documentary's theme of sexuality, among it a woman riding past on horseback and a homeless veteran who sleeps in the park. The director of Over the Cliff comes across as sexist, unfocused and seemingly inept, and the crews grow restless about what he is doing while the cameras keep running. The finished film presents the footage in split screens that carry two or three perspectives at once.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
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- Greaves hired three film crews at once: one to film the actors, one to film the first crew, and one to film anything matching the theme of "sexuality", including passers-by.
- Greaves played a sexist, inept director rather than himself, and the crews' on-camera dissent at his behavior ended up in the final cut.
- Shot in 1968 but undistributed, Greaves kept the original print negatives until 1991, when a Brooklyn Museum curator asked to show the film in a retrospective of his work.
- Steve Buscemi saw the film at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival and, with Steven Soderbergh, helped secure distribution for it and financing for a sequel.
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