Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

🎞️ Movie 75 min US
โ˜… 7.2 /10 1968

Filmmaker William Greaves is shooting a series of screen tests in New York City's Central Park for the two leads of a feature length movie, with the working title of 'Over the Cliff'. Simultaneously, he has a documentary filmmaking crew filming the behind the scenes making of the movie. In addition to seeing these two sets of footage (the film and the film of the film), the viewer also sees footage of a third film crew filming the these two in relation to what is happening overall as they film in the park while real life goes on around them, which in Bill's mind is part of the realism of the movie. 'Over the Cliff' itself has no plot and no full script but only a working concept of sexuality being the movie's theme and snippets of scripted dialogue. This unstructured approach is to give the movie a sense of realism. The actors imply as much, but many of the crew, discussing in Grieves-less bullpen sessions, believe Greaves is unfocused and inept at what he is doing, while a minority believe his experimental process will yield a special and great end product.

Cast

Don Fellows
Don Fellows
Self
Self - Actor Testing for Freddy
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Jonathan Gordon
Self
Self - Soundman
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Bob Rosen
Self
Self - Production Manager
William Greaves
William Greaves
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Self - Director
Susan Anspach
Susan Anspach
Self
Self - Actress Testing for Alice
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Audrey Heningham
Self
Self - Black Lady Clapping her Hands
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Stevan Larner
Self
Self - Cameraman
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Terence Macartney-Filgate
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Self - Cameraman
Miles Davis
Miles Davis
Composer
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Stevan Larner
Cinematographer
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Terence Macartney-Filgate
Cinematographer

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