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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (directed by William Greaves, 1968) This film really blew my mind, being a sort of meta-behind the scenes documentary (or whatever). There are three separate film crews: the first one is shooting a screen test for a sordid psychodrama-cum-soap opera type of film, called "Over the Cliff". They, in their turn, are filmed by the second crew, supposedly for a behind-the-scenes documentary. Then there's the third crew, shooting both the crews 1 & 2 and everything else that is happening on location. Perhaps it's a human experiment made up by William Greaves (1926 - 2014), playing the role of an incompetent director and bad screenwriter to get reactions from his actors and crew and thus setting in motion the whole creative impetus for this reality-TV before reality-TV work (or cinéma vérité as they used to call it). As an amateur/student filmmaker I could really relate to the situations and the interpersonal friction here. S...

MRS TABE SLIOOR TELLS ABOUT SATAN AND THE ARCH DEVIL CALLED ANTON LAVEY THE DISGUSTING CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH OF SATAN [Suomeksi] Tabe Slioor (21 November, 1926 – 25 April, 2006) was in her time a famous Finnish celebrity, socialite, journalist and fashion model. She was avidly followed by media after her notorious affairs with some famous men in high positions, such as Erik von Frenckell, the honorary mayor of Helsinki. Tabe Slioor was of Persian descent and claimed her father had been a prince even though the truth was something far more modest. While living in San Francisco, she wrote a series of profiles of American public figures for the men's magazine Jallu (which, compared to the magazine's later reputation, was still quite chaste at this point, focusing mainly on pin-ups and bikini photos). Jallu had also been the magazine to publish Tabe's controversial memoir in the early 1960s. Tabe's Stateside interviewees included Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agne...