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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

1968 · 75 min

A playful, brainy hall of mirrors that keeps folding the act of filming into itself, rewarding patience with quiet, wry fascination.

Overview: 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?
How it feels: Whimsical, satirical, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Art, identity, media, obsession
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: art
identity
media
obsession
gender
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild