Peter Mettler Filmes

  • 2025
    While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts

    While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts

    While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts

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    This magnum opus from visionary non-fiction filmmaker Peter Mettler (Gambling, Gods and LSD) is an innovative, intimate, intercontinental epic that...

    While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts
  • 1987
    Family Viewing

    Family Viewing

    Family Viewing

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    An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a...

    Family Viewing
  • 2012
    The End of Time

    The End of Time

    The End of Time

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    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...

    The End of Time
  • 1984
    Next of Kin

    Next of Kin

    Next of Kin

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    Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing. Because Peter does nothing all...

    Next of Kin
  • 2009
    The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy

    The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy

    The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy

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    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. The...

    The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy
  • 2017
    Fell in Love with a Girl

    Fell in Love with a Girl

    Fell in Love with a Girl

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    A film about longstanding relationships, family, and the deep consequences of falling in love. While exploring themes of love in music, poetry and...

    Fell in Love with a Girl
  • 2025
    While the Green Grass Grows

    While the Green Grass Grows

    While the Green Grass Grows

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    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...

    While the Green Grass Grows
  • 1998
    Elimination Dance

    Elimination Dance

    Elimination Dance

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    Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.

    Elimination Dance
  • 1985
    Eastern Avenue

    Eastern Avenue

    Eastern Avenue

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    From the material he shot during a three month journey, Peter Mettler edited a lyrical film which is no ordinary travelogue or diary. Without...

    Eastern Avenue
  • 2006
    Manufactured Landscapes

    Manufactured Landscapes

    Manufactured Landscapes

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    MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his...

    Manufactured Landscapes
  • 2018
    Becoming Animal

    Becoming Animal

    Becoming Animal

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    A palpably rendered audiovisual essay draws together the distinct sensibilities of filmmakers Peter Mettler (The End of Time) and Emma Davie (I am...

    Becoming Animal
  • 2000
    Krapp's Last Tape

    Krapp's Last Tape

    Krapp's Last Tape

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    In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the...

    Krapp's Last Tape
  • 2002
    Gambling, Gods and LSD

    Gambling, Gods and LSD

    Gambling, Gods and LSD

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    Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that...

    Gambling, Gods and LSD
  • 2007
    Away

    Away

    Away

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    The filmmaker of this short documentary used his cellphone camera to shoot these scenes in Costa Rica. He reflects on the dichotomy of nature versus...

    Away
  • 1980
    Lancalot Freely

    Lancalot Freely

    Lancalot Freely

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    A documentary portrait of Peter Mettler’s best childhood friend, who had left home to lead a lavish lifestyle.

    Lancalot Freely
  • 1994
    Picture of Light

    Picture of Light

    Picture of Light

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    A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.

    Picture of Light
  • 1989
    The Top of His Head

    The Top of His Head

    The Top of His Head

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    Satellite dish salesman Gus experiences some life-altering changes when he meets performance artist Lucy in this visually poetic fantasy. After Lucy...

    The Top of His Head
  • 2009
    Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands

    Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands

    Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands

    6.52009HD

    The huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact could be heavy and long-term.

    Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands
  • 2005
    The Giant Buddhas

    The Giant Buddhas

    The Giant Buddhas

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    Christian Frei's documentary traces the tragic tale of the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, which stood as monumental landmarks for...

    The Giant Buddhas
  • 1992
    Tectonic Plates

    Tectonic Plates

    Tectonic Plates

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    An adaptation of Robert Lepage's stage play about lost love and considered suicide.

    Tectonic Plates