Live Breaking News & Updates on Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One
Stay updated with breaking news from Symbiopsychotaxiplasm take one. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Next month, the Criterion Channel celebrates Pride Month with a host of extraordinary queer-themed films, including a new installment of our Queersighted series focusing on taboo-breaking artists, a trio of outré underground classics from John Waters, and a restrospective dedicated to the nonfiction trailblazers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, whose films have helped bring LGBTQ stories out of the closet and into the mainstream. There’s also a spotlight on screwball great Carole Lombard, a new installment of Adventures in Moviegoing with Justin Simien, and hundredth-birthday tributes to Judy Holliday, Jane Russell, and Luis García Berlanga. If you haven’t signed up yet, head to CriterionChannel.com and get a 14-day free trial. ....
There’s a gently anarchic spirit to William Greaves’s 1968 experimental documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, which follows Greaves and his crew as they attempt to film two actors staging a breakup scene in Central Park. This description barely scratches the surface of what’s really going on: Greaves himself is playing a role, that of the bumbling director but he’s the only one in on it. The script is melodramatic; the actors mostly a middle-class white couple, but other actors of different ages, backgrounds, and races are swapped in and out overact; the crew instructed to always have three cameras going, on the scene, the crew, and the park itself stages a mutiny. Unbeknownst to Greaves, they film their grievances and critiques and present them to him once it’s all over (these make up three major sections of the movie). As one crew member remarks, this is a movie about power. But as it turns out, that was the conceit all along: at one point, Greaves explains ....