Peter Mettler

Peter Mettler is a SwissCanadian film director and cinematographer. He is best known for his unique, intuitive approach to documentary, evinced by such films as Picture of Light , Gambling, Gods and LSD , and The End of Time . 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 ORourke, 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 . While Mettler was at Ryerson, he spent summers loading cargo onto airplanes in Zrich, and took a year off to work with residents of a heroin rehabilitation home in a twelfthcentury Swiss monastery, which provided inspiration for his first feature film Scissere . Scissere was the first student film included in the Toronto International Film Festival , and received the Norman McLaren Award for Best Canadian Student Film.

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