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In Australia no painter has more self-consciously and brilliantly investigated self-portraiture, than Brett Whiteley. In this film, Whiteley has integrated portrait and environment, reflecting Eastern ideas of man being only as important as any other point of reference. The film shows many earlier Whiteley self-portraits, and includes statements especially recorded by him. It is not, however, so much an analysis as an evocation of the artist's personal vision.