Peter Mettler
Directing
Born September 7, 1958 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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.
Filmography
While the Green Grass Grows
While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts
Becoming Animal
Fell in Love with a Girl
Narrator (voice)
Traces of the future
The End of Time
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands
The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy
Narrator
Manufactured Landscapes
The Giant Buddhas
Gambling, Gods and LSD
Himself
Krapp's Last Tape
Elimination Dance
Balifilm
Picture of Light
Tectonic Plates
The Top of His Head
Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland
Family Viewing
Passion: A Letter in 16mm
Eastern Avenue
Next of Kin
Scissere
Gregory
Lancalot Freely