24 Jan 2023
20 years after Caméra Café
To celebrate the release of a new movie for their 20th anniversary, this documentary offers some behind-the-scenes footages.
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation between a couple: he demands to know what's wrong, she challenges his sexual orientation. Cameras shoot the exchange, and another camera records Greaves and his crew. Sometimes we watch the crew discussing this scene, its language, and the process of making a movie. Is there such a thing as natural language? Are all things related to sex? The camera records distractions - a woman rides horseback past them; a garrulous homeless vet who sleeps in the park chats them up. What's the nature of making a movie?
Top Billed Cast
Patricia Ree Gilbert Self - Actress Testing for Alice
Don Fellows Self - Actor Testing for Freddy
Jonathan Gordon Self - Soundman
Susan Anspach Self - Actress Testing for Alice (uncredited)
Audrey Heningham Black Lady Clapping Her Hands (uncredited)
Maria Zeheri Self - Camera Assistant (uncredited)
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