big city,avant-garde,filmmaking,cameraman,cinéma vérité,non-narrative,central park, new york city,cast and crew,film director,film crew,film within a film,arguing couple,experimental

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (1968)

Poster for Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation between a couple: he demands to know what's wrong, she challenges his sexual orientation. Cameras shoot the exchange, and another camera records Greaves and his crew. Sometimes we watch the crew discussing this scene, its language, and the process of making a movie. Is there such a thing as natural language? Are all things related to sex? The camera records distractions - a woman rides horseback past them; a garrulous homeless vet who sleeps in the park chats them up. What's the nature of making a movie?

Cast & Crew

Director
William Greaves
  • Profile picture of Patricia Ree Gilbert
    Self - Actress Testing for Alice Patricia Ree Gilbert
  • Profile picture of Don Fellows
    Self - Actor Testing for Freddy Don Fellows
  • Profile picture of Jonathan Gordon
    Self - Soundman Jonathan Gordon
  • Profile picture of William Greaves
    Self - Director William Greaves
  • Profile picture of Susan Anspach
    Self - Actress Testing for Alice (uncredited) Susan Anspach
  • Profile picture of Stevan Larner
    Self - Cameraman (uncredited) Stevan Larner
  • Profile picture of Terence Macartney-Filgate
    Self - Cameraman (uncredited) Terence Macartney-Filgate

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Keywords

  • big city
  • avant-garde
  • filmmaking
  • cameraman
  • cinéma vérité
  • non-narrative
  • central park, new york city
  • cast and crew
  • film director
  • film crew
  • film within a film
  • arguing couple
  • experimental