Peter Mettler
Directing · Born Sep 7, 1958 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Peter Mettler (born September 7, 1958) 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.
Known for
Directed
While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts
2026
While the Green Grass Grows
2025
Becoming Animal
20186.4
Traces of the future
2014
The End of Time
20127.1
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands
20096.8
Gambling, Gods and LSD
20025.8
Balifilm
19977.4
Picture of Light
19946.8
Tectonic Plates
199210.0
The Top of His Head
19894.7
Eastern Avenue
19857.5
Scissere
19826.2
Gregory
1981
Lancalot Freely
1980
