Peter Mettler
Known for: Director
Born: 7 September 1958 (age 68), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Credits: 4 titles
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.
Acting
Directed / Created
While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts
While the Green Grass Grows
Becoming Animal
Traces of the future
The End of Time
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands
Away
Gambling, Gods and LSD
Balifilm
Picture of Light
Tectonic Plates
The Top of His Head
Eastern Avenue
Scissere
Gregory
Lancalot Freely