Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:ONF | NFB
Cast & Crew
M
Margaret Peterson
as Self
R
Rick Therrien
as Narrator
Beyond the Sun
StarringMargaret PetersonRick Therrien
DirectorRick Therrien
WriterRick Therrien
17 minDocumentary
Plot
Margaret Peterson is a retired painter, now living in Victoria, British Columbia, where this production was shot. The film explores the psyche of the painter through her paintings, through interviews, through an interpretive commentary by the director of the film, and the improvised riffs of a saxophone soloist. The film is a scrapbook of ideas, memories, opinions, interpretations and paintings that render the artist eventful rather than biographical. Beyond the Sun reveals a character very much attracted to primitive religion and a painter drawn to colour abstraction, both qualities typical of the 'beat' movement of the 1940s and 50s.
