Name
Peter Mettler
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1958-09-07 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Biography
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.
Known For
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In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life an...
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Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determ...
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MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned ...
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The incredible story of how the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man was discovered by a ...
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Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly...
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An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturat...
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Working at the limits of what can easily be expressed, filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on th...
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A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights....
- 2009 The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy as Narrator
- 1981 Gregory
- 2002 Gambling, Gods and LSD as Himself
- 2005 The Giant Buddhas
- 2017 Fell in Love with a Girl as Narrator (voice)
