Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One is a 1968 experimental docudrama film written, directed, and conceived by AfricanAmerican film director and documentarian William Greaves. The film, which is shot and presented in the style of a cinma vrit documentary, attempts to capture and examine pure reality unhindered by the presence of the cameras all around. It is perhaps most memorable for the layers of metatextual storytelling inherent in the concept of the story that of a documentary inside a documentary inside a documentary.

Greaves originally conceived of the concept for the film by applying the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle to a project Greaves had come up with several years earlier, in which he would follow and document a group of actors undergoing the audition process for an acting job. Finding himself dissatisfied with Hollywood acting, which he found stiff and forced rather than loose and spontaneous as life tended to be, Greaves attempted to find new and different ways to bring out reality as it really was, one in which would not act to the camera.The film was independently financed by one of Greavess old students from his teaching days at the National Film Board of Canada and The Actors Studio. The title came from Greavess own fascination with scientific concepts. The concept of Symbiotaxiplasm originated from Arthur F. Bentley in his book Inquiry Into Inquiries Essays in Social Theory, which Greaves described as those events that transpire in the course of anyones life that have an impact on the consciousness and the psyche of the average human being, and how that human being also controls or effects changes or has an impact on the environment. By adding the root psycho into the mix, turning an alreadycomplex topic into a more complex one, Greave emphasizes the mental state affected by those events. Therefore, the title is, in Greavess mind, very attractive. ........

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