"Barcelona Point" by Melinda Camber Porter. >(Courtesy Photo: Joe Flicek)

Southampton - "Spirit Enlightened" 2012 Global Film Festival is now streaming films chosen to explore the spirit, the consciousness, the divine - the creative and healing journey of human soul. "Spirit Enlightened" aspires to trace the spirit that has led the humanity through centuries and civilizations, and is in the making of our future. The festival hopes to explore, "That which envelops to infuse and evolve the individual as well as collective being, expands our vision of time as well as place, enlivens our hearts, and enlightens our species to transcend the present state of being for the mystical new - the next state of supramental self. Let's observe and feel this divine/enlightened spirit in the moment of its performance, in the midst of humanity now and forever, through film-media."

"Luminous Journey: The Art of Melinda Camber Porter," is a documentary portrait of the artist and her creative process. The film is set around the ocean and landscape of Barcelona Point, high dunes and nature preserve off the Atlantic Ocean in Sag Harbor. The narrative follows the completion of Porter's "Luminous Bodies" paintings and her transition to Nature through the Barcelona Point paintings. The artist's connection to Nature began to dominate her personal and emotional conditions through the exploration of light and shadow to produced large, vibrant oils infused with natural light. Melinda Camber Porter was from London, graduated from Oxford University. She went to Paris as the cultural correspondent for The Times of London. In Paris for 10 years and in New York for 25 years, Porter continued to intertwine her art, films, journalism, novels, plays and poetry in her creative works throughout her life. "Luminous Journey" shows an artist at work and finding inspiration driving her creative process. Porter died of ovarian cancer in 2008.

Melinda Camber Porter and Joe Flicek at Havens Beach in Sag Harbor, 2000. (Courtesy Photo: Joe Flicek)

The short documentary focuses on the creation of the "Luminous Bodies" series, which includes hundreds of watercolors with narrative images and poetry entwined in the artist's journey of bereavement for a loved one. The documentary follows the artist's progress and inspiration into her next series of paintings, Barcelona Point Series. This becomes 17 large oil paintings, which were inspired by her passion for the ocean and landscape by Barcelona Point, a seascape of high dunes and nature preserve off the Atlantic Ocean, in the area of Sag Harbor. The documentary shows how the artist's connection to Nature began to dominate her exploration of light, shadow and water to produced large, vibrant oils infused with natural light.

The film is streaming at: www.cultureunplugged.comstoryteller/joseph _ flicek.