The Image (Pt.2)

Dark and surreal, this short film by the then young Director Michael Armstrong was David Bowie's first ever acting appearance on-screen. The Image is "... a study of the illusionary reality world within the schizophrenic mind of the artist at his point of creativity."

Shot over a 3-day period in September 1967, The Image (which was originally given an X rating by the British Board Of Film Censors) sank into the dark depths of anonymity for decades, before being rediscovered.

Now restored, this example of underground avant garde 60s' art can once again be appreciated both by followers of David Bowie and critics alike.

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[TheBowieChannel]

The Image is "... a study of the illusionary reality world within the schizophrenic mind of the artist at his point of creativity." The boy in the painting is mearly a facet of the artist's own personality, which becomes too real for him and so he tries to destroy that side of his own personality - the side which he doesn't like. What we see when we watch this is what the painter is seeing and hearing, not what is physically real.

[litlIzzy93]

Can you explain one thing to me? Why does the artist want to kill the guy from his painting (Bowie)? Is there a real point to him murdering him?