While the Green Grass Grows (While the Green Grass Grows)

Peter Mettler

In this film diary, Peter Mettler follows the course of rivers and life. While the Green Grass Grows is probably the director’s most intimate film to date. It consists of parts 1 and 6 of a 12-hour long filmic diary, divided into seven parts, and revolves around the consequences of the death of his own mother, and then father, and the question of how we will all continue – on a personal and global level. With his unique cinematic style, the director invites us on a meditative journey in the form of an audiovisual diary, from the Appenzell Alps to the COVID lockdown in Toronto, interrogating our universal human destiny with grace and generosity.

Switzerland, Canada 2023, '166

DIRECTOR: Peter Mettler

SCENARIO: Peter Mettler

CAMERA: Peter Mettler

MONTAGE: Jordan Kawai, Peter Mettler

PRODUCERS: Cornelia Seitler, Peter Mettler, Brigitte Hofer

PRODUCTION: maximage, Grimthorpe Film Inc.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

Visions du Réel: Grand Prix (2023)

DOK Leipzig: Golden Dove (2023)

RIDM: Grand Prix (2023)

Jihlava (2023)

IDFA (2023)

Peter Mettler

A restless cinematic adventurer, Peter Mettler’s singular body of work is characterized by hybridism, a sense of wonder, unusual forms of collaboration and a disregard for tidy generic classifications. Frequently visiting themes of transcendence, wanderlust and the delicate relationship between technology and the natural world, Mettler’s films combine travelogue, essay, interview, fiction and social critique. Major film works include: Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002), Picture of Light (1994), Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives of the Alberta Tar Sands (2009) The End of Time (2012) and Becoming Animal (2018). Honoured with awards and retrospectives worldwide, he is also known as a photographer, cinematographer and groundbreaking live audio/visual mixing performer.

While the Green Grass Grows (While the Green Grass Grows)

Peter Mettler

Peter Mettler

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