Movies: Peter Mettler
- 1984
Next of Kin (1984)
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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 day, the family goes to a clinic where a therapist videotapes them. After Peter watches his tape, he ...
- 1987
Family Viewing (1987)
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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 run-down nursing home. His father depends on phone sex for guidance meanwhile erasing family homevideos of...
- 2006
Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
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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 large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and ...
- 1994
Picture of Light (1994)
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A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights....
- 1989
The Top of His Head (1989)
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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 vanishes, leaving a puzzling note, Gus goes on a quest for the mysterious woman. Moving from his meti...
- 2018
Becoming Animal (2018)
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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 Breathing) and philosopher David Abram (The Spell of the Sensuous) to forge a path into the places wher...
- 2002
Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002)
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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 people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and...
- 2000
Krapp's Last Tape (2000)
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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 69-year-old man on stage, but from his 39-year-old self on the tape he chooses to listen to. On the ...
- 2024
While the Green Grass Grows (2024)
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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 time with his father. On top of that, a global pandemic. Peter Mettler is a rare gem of a filmmaker. ...
- 2009
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (2009)
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The huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact could be heavy and long-term....
- 2005
The Giant Buddhas (2005)
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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 1,500 years until 2001, when the Taliban declared that all non-Islamic statues in the country be destroy...
- 2012
The End of Time (2012)
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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 to filming the unfilmable. From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to pr...
- 1985
Passion: A Letter in 16mm (1985)
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The film takes the form of an extremely intimate Letter in 16mm from Anna, normally a documentary filmmaker, to her unidentified lover. From the first 'exquisite ache' of romantic passion to her final drunken and solitary dance with success, Anna str...
- 2009
The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy (2009)
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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 dead man's detailed notes reveal that he actually committed suicide through self-imposed starvation o...
- 1998
Elimination Dance (1998)
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Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event....
- 1992
Tectonic Plates (1992)
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An adaptation of Robert Lepage's stage play about lost love and considered suicide....
- 2017
Fell in Love with a Girl (2017)
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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 art, the filmmaker reflects on his life and the journeys on which love has taken him. Now, a new journe...
- 1982
Scissere (1982)
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A recently released mental patient imagines himself living the lives of three different people he randomly encounters....
- 2014
Traces of the future (2014)
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Part of a series of short commissioned works by Visions du Réel to celebrate the festival's twentieth anniversary that explore views of the future....
- 1987
Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland (1987)
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Considered one of Canada's most important women artists of the second half of the 20th century, Joyce Wieland's art embodies the essence of her homeland, feminism, and ecology. Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland captures the vibrant spirit of this painter...