Peter Mettler Movies
- 2006
Manufactured Landscapes
Manufactured Landscapes7.2392006HD
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his...
- 1987
Family Viewing
Family Viewing5.71987HD
An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a...
- 1984
Next of Kin
Next of Kin5.81984HD
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...
- 1989
The Top of His Head
The Top of His Head31989HD
Satellite dish salesman Gus experiences some life-altering changes when he meets performance artist Lucy in this visually poetic fantasy. After Lucy...
- 2002
Gambling, Gods and LSD
Gambling, Gods and LSD6.32002HD
Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that...
- 2012
The End of Time
The End of Time7.52012HD
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...
- 2018
Becoming Animal
Becoming Animal6.42018HD
A palpably rendered audiovisual essay draws together the distinct sensibilities of filmmakers Peter Mettler (The End of Time) and Emma Davie (I am...
- 1992
Tectonic Plates
Tectonic Plates01992HD
An adaptation of Robert Lepage's stage play about lost love and considered suicide.
- 2023
While the Green Grass Grows
While the Green Grass Grows22023HD
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...
- 1994
Picture of Light
Picture of Light6.71994HD
A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.
- 2017
Fell in Love with a Girl
Fell in Love with a Girl6.32017HD
A film about longstanding relationships, family, and the deep consequences of falling in love. While exploring themes of love in music, poetry and...
- 1997
Balifilm
Balifilm7.21997HD
Balifilm was originally commissioned as a stage performance, created from diary images and sounds collected in 1990 and 1992 by Peter Mettler on the...
- 1982
Scissere
Scissere5.81982HD
A recently released mental patient imagines himself living the lives of three different people he randomly encounters.
- 1985
Eastern Avenue
Eastern Avenue61985HD
From the material he shot during a three month journey, Peter Mettler edited a lyrical film which is no ordinary travelogue or diary. Without...
- 2009
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands7.32009HD
The huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact could be heavy and long-term.
- 2000
Krapp's Last Tape
Krapp's Last Tape7.42000HD
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...
- 2009
The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy
The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy72009HD
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...
- 2005
The Giant Buddhas
The Giant Buddhas72005HD
Christian Frei's documentary traces the tragic tale of the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, which stood as monumental landmarks for...
- 2007
Away
Away02007HD
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...
- 1998
Elimination Dance
Elimination Dance71998HD
Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.