Peter Mettler Movies

A man and a woman awake in the middle of the night. The woman is upset by her dreams and what she perceives as the untouchable nature of her mind,...

Part of a series of short commissioned works by Visions du Réel to celebrate the festival's twentieth anniversary that explore views of the...

The filmmaker of this short documentary used his cellphone camera to shoot these scenes in Costa Rica. He reflects on the dichotomy of nature versus...

Balifilm was originally commissioned as a stage performance, created from diary images and sounds collected in 1990 and 1992 by Peter Mettler on the...

A recently released mental patient imagines himself living the lives of three different people he randomly encounters.

A documentary portrait of Peter Mettler’s best childhood friend, who had left home to lead a lavish lifestyle.

From the material he shot during a three month journey, Peter Mettler edited a lyrical film which is no ordinary travelogue or diary. Without...

European artists frame the openness of the world in works of art. In gold mines in Africa, slaves dig for precious metal, and the story of the camps...