Black X: African Diaspora Experimental Film Series (Pt 2)-Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
Maysles Cinema New York, NY
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Black X: African Diaspora Experimental Film Series (Pt 2)-Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
The evening portion of the Black X marathon of African Diaspora Experimental Film features the first widely seen experimental film by a black artist, William Greaves' Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One. With an introduction and discussion, more details TBA.
Full Day Pass for only $5 more available at (event starts at 3pm): http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/176141
Arrive by 6pm if you would like to join the preceding reception.
6:00pm Reception
7:00pm Introduction and Discussion TBA
'Symbiopsychotaxiplasm' (Dir. William Greaves, 1968. 75 min.) The first widely seen experimental film by a black artist, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One is a one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid. Director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they're making. A couple enacts a break-up scenario over and over, a documentary crew films a crew filming the crew, locals wander casually into the frame: the project defies easy description. Yet this wildly innovative sixties counterculture landmark remains one of the most tightly focused and insightful movies ever made about making movies.
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Maysles Cinema
343 Lenox Ave.
New York, NY 10027
United States
