Acting credits
5
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
Peter Mettler
Directing
Career Snapshot
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0.1
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Movies: 25Series: 0Crew credits: 22
TMDB ID: 985032
IMDb ID: nm0582650
Known for: Directing
Born: September 7, 1958
Age: 67
Place of birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1980 - 2025
Years active: 46
Average TMDB rating: 6.03
Wikidata: Q7175862
Other jobs
Director (14)Director of Photography (5)Editor (1)Second Assistant Camera (1)Sound (1)
Biography
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Peter Mettler.
While the Green Grass Grows
Editor
2025 Movie
While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts
Director
2025 Movie
6.4
Becoming Animal
Director
2018 Movie
6.3
Fell in Love with a Girl
as Narrator (voice)
2017 Movie
Traces of the future
Director
2014 Movie
7.1
The End of Time
Director
2012 Movie
6.5
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands
Director
2009 Movie
7.1
The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy
as Narrator
2009 Movie
7.1
Manufactured Landscapes
Sound
2006 Movie
7.0
The Giant Buddhas
2005 Movie
5.7
Gambling, Gods and LSD
as Himself
2002 Movie
7.4
Krapp's Last Tape
Director of Photography
2000 Movie
7.0
Elimination Dance
Second Assistant Camera
1998 Movie
7.2
Balifilm
Director
1997 Movie
6.7
Picture of Light
Director
1994 Movie
Tectonic Plates
Director
1992 Movie
2.0
The Top of His Head
Director
1989 Movie
Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland
Director of Photography
1987 Movie
5.4
Family Viewing
Director of Photography
1987 Movie
1.0
Passion: A Letter in 16mm
Director of Photography
1985 Movie
6.0
Eastern Avenue
Director
1985 Movie
5.6
Next of Kin
Director of Photography
1984 Movie
5.8
Scissere
Director
1982 Movie
Gregory
1981 Movie