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Peter Mettler

Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Actor, Composer, Additional CreditsBorn September 7, 1958 (66 years)
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

  • Gambling, Gods and LSD
  • The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy
  • The End of Time
  • Picture of Light
  • Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands
  • Becoming Animal
  • Scissere
  • Balifilm
  • Eastern Avenue
  • While the Green Grass Grows: Parts 1&6
  • Fell in Love with a Girl

Filmography

2023
2018
Becoming Animal · as Self
2012
The End of Time · as Self - Narrator
2004
George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (TV Series) · as Self
2002
1994
Picture of Light · as Self - Cinematography And Direction
1991
Movie Days (TV Series) · as Self

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