Picture of Light
Film critic Gérard Grugeau passed away just a few months ago. We'll be showing a few films that were significant to this figure, who was well-known for championing emerging filmmakers and was beloved by fellow film writers.
Winner of three awards, 1995 Hot Docs
Peter Mettler ventures with his film crew to Canada's Far North in order to film the Northern Lights. Far from being a simple postcard-style film, Picture of Light shows the difficult conditions under which it was shot and becomes a rich reflection on subjects such as the conflict between nature and technology.
Peter Mettler
Peter Mettler is a Swiss-Canadian film director and cinematographer. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in the 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. 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). Film critic José Teodoro compared his methodology to that of Chris Marker and Werner Herzog, stating that he has a particular gift as an open and unobtrusive interviewer and that he can discover shared sensibilities between people of vastly diverse cultures and creeds. He according to him still, "his lens is ever gravitating toward outsiders in search of ecstatic states, strange spectacles that defy straightforward documentation, and sacred places that promise some metaphysical deliverance." 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 Robert Lepage and Neil Young. Since the mid-2000s, he 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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