Directing · geboren 1958-09-07 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Peter Mettler
Peter Mettler (* 7. September 1958) ist ein schweizerisch-kanadischer Filmregisseur und Kameramann. Er ist vor allem für seine einzigartige, intuitive Herangehensweise an Dokumentarfilme bekannt, die sich in Filmen wie „Picture of Light“ (1994), „Gambling, Gods and LSD“ (2002) und „The End of Time“ (2012) zeigt. Er hat auch als Kameramann an Filmen von Atom Egoyan, Patricia Rozema, Bruce McDonald und Jennifer Baichwal gearbeitet und mit zahlreichen anderen Künstlern zusammengearbeitet, darunter Michael Ondaatje, Fred Frith, Jim O'Rourke, Jane Siberry, Robert Lepage, Edward Burtynsky, Greg Hermanovic, Richie Hawtin, Neil Young, Jeremy Narby und Franz Treichler.
Bekannt aus
- Manufactured Landscapes (2006) – Sound
- Family Viewing (1987) – Director of Photography
- Next of Kin (1984) – Director of Photography
- Das Summen der Insekten (2009) – Narrator
- Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002) – Himself
- Picture of Light (1994) – Music
- The End of Time (2012) – Director
- Krapp's Last Tape (2000) – Director of Photography
- Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (2009) – Director
- Becoming Animal (2018) – Director
- The Giant Buddhas (2005)
- Scissere (1982) – Director
- Balifilm (1997) – Director
- Fell in Love with a Girl (2017) – Narrator (voice)
- Passion: A Letter in 16mm (1985) – Director of Photography
- The Top of His Head (1989) – Director
- Elimination Dance (1998) – Second Assistant Camera
- Eastern Avenue (1985) – Director
- Tectonic Plates (1992) – Director
- Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland (1987) – Director of Photography
- Gregory (1981)
- Away (2007) – Director
- While the Green Grass Grows (2025) – Writer
- Lancalot Freely (1980) – Producer
- Traces du futur (2014) – Director
- While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts (2026) – Director
- De temps et d'eau – Sound Recordist
- Prstan (2004) – Director of Photography