Scissere
A first-person foray into the disorienting realm between reason and sensation, Peter Mettler’s _Scissere_ is an incorrigibly inventive first feature film. It deploys a seemingly inexhaustible repertoire of optical effects, in rendering the experiences of a mental patient wandering outside institutional confines for the first time in many years. Wide-eyed and frightened, the central figure, Bruno Scissere, imagines himself inside the sensibilities of three people he randomly spots at a bus station: a young mother, a heroin addict and an entomologist.
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In this first full-length film from Peter Mettler, we’re struck by the radicality of his gaze and his unending inventiveness with regard to form. By choosing to follow a young heroin addict as he leaves the hospital, the Canadian filmmaker plunges us into his impossible return from exile into a hostile and chaotic urban landscape.
Criss-crossing between solitudes in a desolate Toronto landscape, his film is a whirlwind of emotions and feelings, where our sometimes-indispensable confusion only adds to its poetry and compelling strangeness.
His rhythmic and non-linear approach to the film’s editing, progressing through dissonance, diversion and free association, which, jazz-like, builds a complex and inspiring piece whose daring still awes us nearly 40 years after its release.
Terence Chotard
Filmmaker
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FR-Scissere
Language: Français
Subtitles: 242--scissere--FR--peter-mettler---1982.vtt -
EN-Scissere
Language: English
- Année 1982
- Pays Canada
- Durée 88
- Producteur Collaborative Effort
- Langue English
- Sous-titres French
- Résumé court Foray into the interiority of a young ex-drug addict, Bruno Scissere, who constantly reinvents his identity.
In this first full-length film from Peter Mettler, we’re struck by the radicality of his gaze and his unending inventiveness with regard to form. By choosing to follow a young heroin addict as he leaves the hospital, the Canadian filmmaker plunges us into his impossible return from exile into a hostile and chaotic urban landscape.
Criss-crossing between solitudes in a desolate Toronto landscape, his film is a whirlwind of emotions and feelings, where our sometimes-indispensable confusion only adds to its poetry and compelling strangeness.
His rhythmic and non-linear approach to the film’s editing, progressing through dissonance, diversion and free association, which, jazz-like, builds a complex and inspiring piece whose daring still awes us nearly 40 years after its release.
Terence Chotard
Filmmaker
-
FR-Scissere
Language: Français
Subtitles: 242--scissere--FR--peter-mettler---1982.vtt -
EN-Scissere
Language: English
- Année 1982
- Pays Canada
- Durée 88
- Producteur Collaborative Effort
- Langue English
- Sous-titres French
- Résumé court Foray into the interiority of a young ex-drug addict, Bruno Scissere, who constantly reinvents his identity.
