Against the backdrop of the interactions between image, identity, and authenticity, this section of the book demonstrates how the uniqueness, the special quality, the essence of a personality can be iconically condensed in and through film on the one hand, and multisensorially experienced on the other. Taking as a starting point the mythological figure of the beautiful but doom-bringing Pandora, the film adaptation Die Büchse der Pandora (Germany 1929, dir. Georg W. Pabst) is used to first explore the nature and becoming of the (cinematic) image, embodied in the protagonist Lulu. The discussion then turns to exemplary artist images staged in films of the 1990s and 2000s. Here, the focus shifts to the question of which cinematic-aesthetic means and signs are used to condense and/or make affectively tangible the image of the artist in the interplay between concealment and exposure. Various categories of signs and levels of experience in intertextual personality imaginations are presented and related to the cinematic experience of the ‘true’.