Peter Mettler
Born in Toronto in 1958 to Swiss parents, Peter Mettler studied film at the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, and became a leading figure in Ontario’s New Wave in the 1980s, making his first, highly acclaimed experimental feature Scissere in 1982. The filmmaker’s hybrid body of work explores the limits of human perception without a pre-established script, following an associative process that wanders along the borders of art house, documentary and fiction. Among other things, we owe him a trilogy of metaphysical documentaries made up of Picture of Light (1994), Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002) and The End of Time (2012).
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Gambling, Gods and LSD
Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmaker’s mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and so...
Lancalot Freely
A documentary portrait of Peter Mettler's childhood best friend, who left the family home to pursue an uncompromising lifestyle.
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, Brun...
Picture of Light
Un conte fascinant autour du voyage d'un cinéaste dans l'Arctique canadien à la recherche de l'une des plus grandes merveilles naturelles de la Terre: les aurores boréales. En combinant des fragments du quotidien des habitants avec les tentatives comiques et absurdes de l'équipage pour faire face au froid extrême, le film révèle les paradoxes qu'implique la tentative de capturer les aurores bor...
Gambling, Gods and LSD
Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmaker’s mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and so...
Lancalot Freely
A documentary portrait of Peter Mettler's childhood best friend, who left the family home to pursue an uncompromising lifestyle.
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, Brun...
Picture of Light
Un conte fascinant autour du voyage d'un cinéaste dans l'Arctique canadien à la recherche de l'une des plus grandes merveilles naturelles de la Terre: les aurores boréales. En combinant des fragments du quotidien des habitants avec les tentatives comiques et absurdes de l'équipage pour faire face au froid extrême, le film révèle les paradoxes qu'implique la tentative de capturer les aurores bor...
