Peter Mettler Movies

  • 2006
    Manufactured Landscapes

    Manufactured Landscapes

    Manufactured Landscapes

    7.2392006HD

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

    Manufactured Landscapes
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2012
    The End of Time

    The End of Time

    The End of Time

    7.52012HD

    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...

    The End of Time
  • 2018
    Becoming Animal

    Becoming Animal

    Becoming Animal

    6.42018HD

    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
  • 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
  • 2023
    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
  • 1994
    Picture of Light

    Picture of Light

    Picture of Light

    6.71994HD

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

    Picture of Light
  • 2017
    Fell in Love with a Girl

    Fell in Love with a Girl

    Fell in Love with a Girl

    6.32017HD

    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
  • 1997
    Balifilm

    Balifilm

    Balifilm

    7.21997HD

    Balifilm was originally commissioned as a stage performance, created from diary images and sounds collected in 1990 and 1992 by Peter Mettler on the...

    Balifilm
  • 1982
    Scissere

    Scissere

    Scissere

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    A recently released mental patient imagines himself living the lives of three different people he randomly encounters.

    Scissere
  • 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
  • 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

    7.32009HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2005
    The Giant Buddhas

    The Giant Buddhas

    The Giant Buddhas

    72005HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1998
    Elimination Dance

    Elimination Dance

    Elimination Dance

    71998HD

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

    Elimination Dance