Tuesday, September 19, 2017 7pm
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Little Hall, Hamilton, NY 13346, USA
Dir William Greaves. 1968. 75mins.
Exploring the limits of film’s capacity to capture reality, William Greaves master-class in documentary reflexivity plays out like a cinematic rendering of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. After recruiting students from New York’s Actor’s Studio to perform a simple scene, Greaves tasked a second crew to record the first crew, and then a third crew to record the second, creating layers of fact and fiction that unravel like Russian Dolls. Dubbed 'the most versatile and durable of African-American independents' by J.Hoberman, Greaves revelatory experiment faded into obscurity after its completion, only to find widespread critical acclaim 25 years later. A conceptual masterpiece that deconstructs the hierarchical power dynamics of cinematic production, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm presents a manifesto for the potentialities of truth on film.
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