The Symbiopsychotaxiplasm project was Greaves's attempt to explore the filmmaking process and, in particular, to put the usual film production hierarchy into crisis. Greaves wrote a single scene and asked several pairs of actors to perform the scene in a variety of ways. The crew were given directions to film not only the scene, but themselves filming the scene. Unbeknownst to his collaborators, Greaves was consciously acting the role of an incompetent film director, in an attempt to discover how far he could push the cast and crew before they rebelled against him. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One deconstructs the process of creative collaboration in general, and the cinéma vérité approach to documentary in particular.-Scott MacDonald