page_title: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
hierarchical_section_title: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
caption_attribution_description: English: 2005 poster for the theatrical release of the 1968 experimental film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One. The belated distribution of the film, decades after its production, was an effort by director William Greaves with the help of Steven Soderbergh and Steve Buscemi.
context_page_description: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One is a 1968 experimental documentary film written, directed, and conceived by African-American film director and documentarian William Greaves. The film, which is shot and presented in the style of a cinéma vérité 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.
  In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
context_section_description: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One is a 1968 experimental documentary film written, directed, and conceived by African-American film director and documentarian William Greaves. The film, which is shot and presented in the style of a cinéma vérité 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.
  In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
caption: 2005 theatrical release poster
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