The Image (1969)
- Directed by
- Michael Armstrong
- Genre
- horror film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 14 min
- Rating
- 5.0 of 10 from 11 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An artist struggles with a fractured sense of reality as he creates a painting. The film follows his disturbing mental journey into the world of his own imagination.
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What happens
The Image is a 1969 British black and white short film directed and written by Michael Armstrong, starring Michael Byrne and David Bowie in his first film role. It was produced by Oliver Negus-Fancey. The summary on the cover of the film's script reads: "a study of the illusionary reality world within the schizophrenic mind of the artist at his point of creativity". The film was classified 'X' by the British Board of Film Classification. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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