Gambling, Gods and LSD


Gambling, Gods and LSD is a 2002 CanadianSwiss experimental documentary film by Canadian film director Peter Mettler. It was shot between 1997 and 1999 in Canada, the United States, Switzerland and India, and is a fragmented narrative that shows what people do to discover themselves and find happiness.

Gambling, Gods and LSD is a travel diary that loosely documents director Peter Mettlers introspective journey through four countries Canada, the United States, Switzerland and India. The film consists of four segments, each showing what people do to discover themselves and find happiness.The first segment takes place in Mettlers hometown of Toronto where he interviews John Paul Young about finding God. Mettler also visits the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship Church who chant, dance and roll on the floor of an airport hangar where they believe Jesus once visited. In the next segment petroglyphs and snakes are observed in Monument Valley in Southwestern United States, and time is spent in Las Vegas, where gamblers are scrutinized at their slot machines and poker tables. Here Mettler also interviews a sex toy salesman who promises clients a nonchemical induced illusion of their fantasy with his orgasmatron sex chair and other devices. ........

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