"Four days spent in a studio working on a centerfold photo for Playboy magazine provided the subject matter for my film. The magazine itself deals with culture, cars, a certain lifestyle. Maybe all those trappings are only there to cover up the naked woman. Maybe it's like with a paper-doll. The naked woman in the middle is a sun around which a system revolves: of culture, of business, of living! (It's impossible to either look or film into the sun.) One can well imagine that the people creating such a picture, the gravity of which is supposed to hold all that, perform their task with as much care, seriousness, and responsibility as if they were splitting uranium. 　　This film, An Image, is part of a series I've been working on since 1979. The television station that commissioned it assumes in these cases that I'm making a film that is critical of its subject matter, and the owner or manager of the thing that's being filmed assumes that my film is an advertisement for them. I try to do neither. Nor do I want to do something in between, but beyond both." 　　--Harun Farocki, Zelluloid, no. 27, Fall 1988

"Four days spent in a studio working on a centerfold photo for Playboy magazine provided the subject matter for my film. The magazine itself deals with culture, cars, a certain lifestyle. Maybe all those trappings are only there to cover up the naked woman. Maybe it's like with a paper-doll. The naked woman in the middle is a sun around which a system revolves: of culture, of business, of living! (It's impossible to either look or film into the sun.) One can well imagine that the people creating such a picture, the gravity of which is supposed to hold all that, perform their task with as much care, seriousness, and responsibility as if they were splitting uranium. 　　This film, An Image, is part of a series I've been working on since 1979. The television station that commissioned it assumes in these cases that I'm making a film that is critical of its subject matter, and the owner or manager of the thing that's being filmed assumes that my film is an advertisement for them. I try to do neither. Nor do I want to do something in between, but beyond both." 　　--Harun Farocki, Zelluloid, no. 27, Fall 1988

很久以前，住在山麓中的壮（僮）族妈妈妲布和三个儿子靠织锦、砍柴为 生。一天，妲布从集市上买回一幅美丽的田园画，决心照样织成僮锦。她夜以继日，整整化了三年时间，方才织成。正当一家围着僮锦观赏时，忽然一阵狂风卷来，僮锦随风飘去，不见踪影。妲布焦急万分，嘱咐老大、 老二速去找回僮锦。他俩来到大山隘口，见有个老奶奶坐在石屋门前，急忙前去询问僮锦下落。老奶奶告诉他们僮锦藏在太阳山的仙宫里，沿途艰险。

很久以前，住在山麓中的壮（僮）族妈妈妲布和三个儿子靠织锦、砍柴为 生。一天，妲布从集市上买回一幅美丽的田园画，决心照样织成僮锦。她夜以继日，整整化了三年时间，方才织成。正当一家围着僮锦观赏时，忽然一阵狂风卷来，僮锦随风飘去，不见踪影。妲布焦急万分，嘱咐老大、 老二速去找回僮锦。他俩来到大山隘口，见有个老奶奶坐在石屋门前，急忙前去询问僮锦下落。老奶奶告诉他们僮锦藏在太阳山的仙宫里，沿途艰险。

很久以前，住在山麓中的壮（僮）族妈妈妲布和三个儿子靠织锦、砍柴为生。一天，妲布从集市上买回一幅美丽的田园画，决心照样织成僮锦。她夜以继日，整整化了三年时间，方才织成。正当一家围着僮锦观赏时，忽然一阵狂风卷来，僮锦随风飘去，不见踪影。妲布焦急万分，嘱咐老大、老二速去找回僮锦。他俩来到大山隘口，见有个老奶奶坐在石屋门前，急忙前去询问僮锦下落。

很久以前，住在山麓中的壮（僮）族妈妈妲布和三个儿子靠织锦、砍柴为生。一天，妲布从集市上买回一幅美丽的田园画，决心照样织成僮锦。她夜以继日，整整化了三年时间，方才织成。正当一家围着僮锦观赏时，忽然一阵狂风卷来，僮锦随风飘去，不见踪影。妲布焦急万分，嘱咐老大、老二速去找回僮锦。他俩来到大山隘口，见有个老奶奶坐在石屋门前，急忙前去询问僮锦下落。

SYNOPSIS 　　The film centers on independence and intelligence of a woman who makes active choices regardless of social norms and ethics. The main character is a divorcee, Eul-hye, and the story unfolds as she encounters different men and experiences with dramatic incidents and conflicts. 　　故事 　　“夫人熊取胆”很聪明，可以把意识（seonwooilran）一个女人重视妇女的自立逃离他们的生活在社会机构或学说只选择自己的意志。主角是离异女人eulhye“冲突的情况下，“eulhye”正在通过与各种环境的男人满足塑造和每个楼层大幅展开。

SYNOPSIS 　　The film centers on independence and intelligence of a woman who makes active choices regardless of social norms and ethics. The main character is a divorcee, Eul-hye, and the story unfolds as she encounters different men and experiences with dramatic incidents and conflicts. 　　故事 　　“夫人熊取胆”很聪明，可以把意识（seonwooilran）一个女人重视妇女的自立逃离他们的生活在社会机构或学说只选择自己的意志。主角是离异女人eulhye“冲突的情况下，“eulhye”正在通过与各种环境的男人满足塑造和每个楼层大幅展开。

Patricia Highsmith's haunting story of a day in a young girl's life when a kind stranger comes to town.

Patricia Highsmith's haunting story of a day in a young girl's life when a kind stranger comes to town.