Peter Mettler
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Peter Mettler, 2013
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Peter Mark Mettler September 7, 1958 Toronto, Canada |
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Film director Cinematographer Photographer |
| Years active | 1976 – present |
Peter Mettler (born September 7, 1958 in Toronto, Ontario) 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.
Peter Mettler was born in 1958 to Swiss parents and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He made his first films at the age of sixteen before studying cinema at Ryerson University (1977-1982). While Mettler was at Ryerson, he spent summers loading cargo onto airplanes in Zürich, and took a year off to work with residents of a heroin rehabilitation home in a twelfth-century Swiss monastery, which provided inspiration for his first feature film Scissere (1982). Scissere was the first student film included in the Toronto International Film Festival (formerly known as the Festival of Festivals), and received the Norman McLaren Award for Best Canadian Student Film.
Mettler followed the experimental narrative of Scissere with the intuitive travelogue diary, Eastern Avenue (1985), a form that would become a hallmark of his filmmaking style. In the 1980s, he would also collaborate as a cinematographer on several key films in the Toronto New Wave cinema, and wrote and directed the feature drama The Top of His Head (1989). As with Mettler's subsequent films, The Top of His Head explores the nature of human perception and technology’s ability to liberate and enslave experience through the power of recording media.
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