Filmed on location in Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands, the program explores Gauguin's obsessive search for an alternative to his own culture, culminating with his artistic achievements in the South Pacific. To a great extent, the story is told in Gauguin's words, revealing his personal philosophy of art and of life. (45 mins.)

Runs the full 27-minute video, Seeing Color: Object, Light, Observer and provides approximately 60 minutes of additional content using live video, animations, archival photos, and a wealth of comparative images. Six segments, which can be played dynamically from the video or selected via menus, provide expanded information about the artists and works featured in the video, pigments, the physics of color, the history of color theory, color vision, and perception.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is renowned for paintings and posters inspired by the rowdy, edgy spectacle of Montmartre in late nineteenth-century Paris. He found his subjects in the neighborhood's dance halls, cabarets, circuses, and brothels, where middle-class visitors came to experience a heady whiff of excitement laced with danger. His images transformed poets, singers, dancer and other performers at the Moulin Rouge, Chat Noir, and other fashionable nightspots—including Aristide Bruant, Jane Avril, and Yvette Guilbert—into celebrities. This film traces the relationship between the aristocratic painter and Montmartre's avant-garde culture, using works by the artists and his colleagues, rare archival footage and sound recordings, period photographs, and interviews with contemporary scholars. (30 mins.)