Shows: 3/04 12:00 PM (Cal), 3/05 2:00 PM (Cal)

First screened in 1968, “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One” is a film about making a film, and nobody – even the film crew, is sure what the final result will be. Will the film they’re making be a documentary about filmmaking? A drama about a couple whose relationship is falling apart? Or some blend of the two? Even director William Greaves doesn’t seem sure. He’s just filming, going with his instincts and those of the actors.
The result is a peculiar, mind-bending look at how people behave when there are cameras focused on them. Multiple angles of the same moment run on the screen simultaneously, shifting in size. Sequences are slipped out of order, woven together in a peculiar braid of cinematography. The end result is a peculiar but effective film.
Made in 2005, “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take Two and a Half” screens afterwards, and in it Greaves and the crew return to the park where they filmed before, using similar methods to see how things have changed.