Agency - English program:.Northwest Centre. Agency:.Produced by NFB in association with Auriole Film Productions Ltd.

Director, Rick Therrien ; script, Rick Therrien ; producer, Tom Dent-Cox, Dale Phillips ; executive producer, Tom Radford, Graydon McCrea ; photography, Peter Woeste, Trevor Mills ; sound, Don Brown ; editing, Per Asplund ; animation camera, Peter Van Uum ; re-recording, Barry P. Jones.

Narrator, Rick Therrien.

Recorded 1987.

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.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).