San Antonio College Library

Maxwell Wilks is an exciting painter with a strong emotional response to the effects of light, color, atmosphere and form. He works in brilliant color and uses the pastel strokes rather than blending to achieve stunning results. In this film, he paints on the north east coast of England at Whitby, selecting views around the harbor and the nearby Dales. He then returns to Australia where he shows us how he uses sketches to work up paintings in his...

Painting outdoors in all weather conditions is very important to David. Working in pure watercolor in a loose and immediate way he is able to capture the light and mood of a place. Here he chooses to paint the pastoral scenery of his native Yorkshire in the early spring as well as the city streets of London and Paris. He also works in his studio, painting a more considered watercolor using an oil painting as source material.

"Charles Darwin was perplexed by the chaotic diversity of luminous organisms, which he found difficult to reconcile with his evolutionary theory. For other reasons bewilderment confronted many observers watching living lights throughout the ages. It fell on naturalists and scientists to try and make sense of the dazzling luminous displays by fireflies and other organisms. In Luminous Creatures, Michel Anctil shows how the mythical perceptions of bioluminescence...

This seven-disc collection contains 155 avant-garde films, revealing hitherto unknown accomplishments of American filmmakers working in the United States and abroad from the invention of cinema until World War II. Offers an innovative and often controversial view of experimental film as a product of avant-garde artists, of professional directors and of amateur moviemakers working collectively and as individuals at all levels of film production.