Peter Mettler Trailers
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Peter Mettler (born September 7, 1958) is a Swiss-Canadian film director and cinematographer. He is best known for his unique, intuitive approach to documentary, evinced by such films as Picture of Light (1994), Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002), and The End of Time (2012). He has also worked as a cinematographer on films by Atom Egoyan, Patricia Rozema, Bruce McDonald, and Jennifer Baichwal, and has collaborated with numerous other artists, including Michael Ondaatje, Fred Frith, Jim O'Rourke, Jane Siberry, Robert Lepage, Edward Burtynsky, Greg Hermanovic, Richie Hawtin, Neil Young, Jeremy Narby, and Franz Treichler.
Most Popular Peter Mettler Trailers
Total trailers found: 26
12 September 1987
Considered one of Canada's most important women artists of the second half of the 20th century, Joyce Wieland's art embodies the essence of her homeland, feminism, and ecology.
12 September 1998
Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.
15 December 1997
Balifilm was originally commissioned as a stage performance, created from diary images and sounds collected in 1990 and 1992 by Peter Mettler on the island of Bali.
23 April 2009
The huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact could be heavy and long-term.
01 January 1981
A man and a woman awake in the middle of the night. The woman is upset by her dreams and what she perceives as the untouchable nature of her mind, unlike the physical nature of her body.
01 January 2007
The filmmaker of this short documentary used his cellphone camera to shoot these scenes in Costa Rica.
24 August 1989
Satellite dish salesman Gus experiences some life-altering changes when he meets performance artist Lucy in this visually poetic fantasy.
01 January 1980
A documentary portrait of Peter Mettler’s best childhood friend, who had left home to lead a lavish lifestyle.
09 September 2006
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky.
10 January 1985
From the material he shot during a three month journey, Peter Mettler edited a lyrical film which is no ordinary travelogue or diary.
02 October 2025
First, there is the Appenzell countryside, and the melting snow that makes the streams overflow. Then the death of his mother, and the need to spend time with his father.
18 November 2018
A palpably rendered audiovisual essay draws together the distinct sensibilities of filmmakers Peter Mettler (The End of Time) and Emma Davie (I am Breathing) and philosopher David Abram (The Spell of the Sensuous) to forge a path into the places where humans and animals meet.
13 September 1982
A recently released mental patient imagines himself living the lives of three different people he randomly encounters.
21 January 2009
The incredible story of how the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man was discovered by a hunter in one of the most remote parts of the country.
12 October 1985
The film takes the form of an extremely intimate Letter in 16mm from Anna, normally a documentary filmmaker, to her unidentified lover.
09 September 1987
An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-down nursing home. His father depends on phone sex for guidance meanwhile erasing family homevideos of happier times with homemade pornography. Will Van rescue his grandmother and memories of his mother in time?
08 September 2000
In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament.
01 January 2014
Part of a series of short commissioned works by Visions du Réel to celebrate the festival's twentieth anniversary that explore views of the future.
30 November 1984
Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing.
05 August 2005
Christian Frei's documentary traces the tragic tale of the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, which stood as monumental landmarks for 1,500 years until 2001, when the Taliban declared that all non-Islamic statues in the country be destroyed.
08 September 2002
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.
12 December 2012
Working at the limits of what can easily be expressed, filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again turns his camera to filming the unfilmable.
07 September 2025
A chronicle of the wonders found in everyday life and events. Tragic and comic, philosophical and poetic, Mettler’s diary combines personal conversations, family history, memories, and love.
29 September 2017
A film about longstanding relationships, family, and the deep consequences of falling in love. While exploring themes of love in music, poetry and art, the filmmaker reflects on his life and the journeys on which love has taken him.
10 June 1994
A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.
10 September 1992
An adaptation of Robert Lepage's stage play about lost love and considered suicide.
