Peter Mettler was born on September 7,1958 and is a Swiss-Canadian film director and cinematographer.
14 Facts About Peter Mettler
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Peter Mettler 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.
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Peter Mettler has 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, Franz Treichler and Emma Davie.
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Since 2005, Peter Mettler has extended his artistic practice to the realm of live digital image-mixing, collaborating with a diverse array of musicians, dancers, poets, and multimedia artists in a wide range of locales, from theatres and cinemas to dance clubs and wilderness retreats.
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Peter Mettler was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in the 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.
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Peter Mettler was born in 1958 in Toronto, Ontario, where he was raised.
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Peter Mettler made his first films at the age of sixteen before studying cinema at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.
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Peter Mettler followed Scissere with Eastern Avenue, an intuitive travelogue diary: a form that would become a hallmark of his filmmaking style.
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In 1992, Peter Mettler adapted the stage play Tectonic Plates by Robert Lepage, in collaboration with Lepage and Theatre Repere.
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Peter Mettler took up the challenge, braving arctic temperatures and constructing a special time-lapse camera system capable of operating in severe nighttime conditions during the film's photography in Churchill, Manitoba.
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Between Picture of Light and his next major project, the colossal Gambling, Gods and LSD, Peter Mettler crafted the transfixing and elegant 28-minute Balifilm.
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The final cut was derived from a 55-hour long assembly of unique footage, which Peter Mettler said was like "composing a piece of music".
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Since 2005, Peter Mettler has worked with the software company Derivative to develop an ever-evolving image-mixing software platform.
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Peter Mettler served as cinematographer on Manufactured Landscapes, director Jennifer Baichwal's documentary travelogue, essay film and portrait of Edward Burtynsky, the Canadian photographer famous for his large-format images of industrial landscapes and their impact on the environment and on human existence.