Peter Mettler

Peter Mettler became interested in film at an early age making his first films when he was 18-years-old. He went on to make Lancalot Freely (1980) and Gregory (1981) and the award-winning feature film Scissere in 1982. In addition to his own work as a director, Mettler is an acclaimed cinematographer working with Atom Egoyan on his first two films as well as the early works of Patricia Rozema, Bruce McDonald, Jeremy Podeswa, Ron Mann and many other independent film makers in the 1980s. His film The End of Time had its Canadian premiere in the Masters program at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. It is the final film in a trilogy of works that explores the limits of what can be expressed in cinema, following Picture of Light (1994) and Gambling Gods &LSD (2002) In November of 2023, Mettler’s While the Green Grass Grows was given the Grand Prize in the National Feature Competition at RIDM the Montreal International Documentary Film Festival. It had previously been honoured with the Grand Prix at the Visions du rel festival. The documentary runs more than two and a half hours, but is just a small part of an unusual film with a total running time of eleven hours. While the Green Grass Grows consists of chapters one and five of a gigantic sevenpart work. We list his credits as a Director.

Official website.
Also see: Paradox and Wonder: The Cinema of Peter Mettler by Tom McSorley.
Also see: Peter Mettler talks about The Making of The End of Time.