Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

“Superficially, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One concerns the shooting of a screen test in Central Park by a film crew. In actual fact, this very personal feature film has nothing to do with that at all, rather it concerns the ability of the camera to capture reality more faithfully when that reality does not feel it is being observed. Thus, the audience follows the filmmaking activities of a motion picture crew and its director, the actors and even spectators watching the film being filmed” (Greaves). When it was rediscovered in 1991, it was recognised as a major contribution to modern self-reflexive cinema.