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Hommage Peter Mettler 2023
Filmstill Picture of Light
Picture of Light
Peter Mettler
The film crew sets out to look for the northern lights. Equipped with an ingenious special camera, they surrender themselves to waiting, the conditions and the people they meet.
Filmstill Picture of Light

Picture of Light

Picture of Light
Peter Mettler
Hommage Peter Mettler 2023
Documentary Film
Canada
1994
87 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
German

Peter Mettler sets out to look for northern lights with photographer Andreas Züst and a small film crew. In order to be able to capture this miracle of nature on film in the first place, the team has built a special camera that has to withstand the extreme climate conditions. On location, they patiently surrender to the state of waiting. They are in the border region between the geographical north and the populated south. The formal structure of the film, on the other hand, shifts between trance-like essay and analytical research trip. And the filmmaker is left with the fundamental question of whether the experience of this spectacular natural phenomenon can be filmed at all.

Annina Wettstein

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Director
Peter Mettler
Script
Peter Mettler
Cinematographer
Peter Mettler
Editor
Peter Mettler, Mike Munn
Producer
Andreas Züst, Peter Mettler, A. Gill
Sound Design
Peter Mettler, Peter Bräker, A. Gill, Leon Johnson, Gaston Kyriazi