Peter Mettler
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- September 7, 1958, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Movies
- 21
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2017 | Fell in Love with a Girl | Narrator (voice) |
| 2009 | The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy | Narrator |
| 2005 | The Giant Buddhas | |
| 2002 | Gambling, Gods and LSD | Himself |
| 1981 | Gregory |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2026 | While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts | Director |
| 2025 | While the Green Grass Grows | Writer, Producer, Director |
| 2018 | Becoming Animal | Director |
| 2014 | Traces of the future | Director |
| 2012 | The End of Time | Director, Screenplay |
| 2009 | Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands | Director, Screenplay |
| 2007 | Away | Director |
| 2002 | Gambling, Gods and LSD | Director, Writer |
| 1997 | Balifilm | Director |
| 1994 | Picture of Light | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 1992 | Tectonic Plates | Director, Writer |
| 1989 | The Top of His Head | Director, Writer |
| 1985 | Eastern Avenue | Director |
| 1982 | Scissere | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1981 | Gregory | Director |
| 1980 | Lancalot Freely | Director, Writer, Producer |
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