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Upcoming events for Fall 2020

We are pleased to announce the following upcoming screenings for Fall 2020:

Picture of Light is included in Andreas Züst: Eis, an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland, from August 22 to November 22. View exhibition details here.

Gambling, Gods and LSD will be presented at Betriebsleiter Kino Cinématte in Bern, Switzerland, on September 11th. Screening details are listed here.

Becoming Animal will be presented at Cinematik Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia, on September 13th. Screening details are available here.

The End of Time will be presented online through Imagine Science Film Festival’s Labocine platform on September 16th, with a live Q&A by Peter. Screening details are listed here.

Scissere will be presented at the Nova Cinema in Brussels on September 20th and October 10th. Screening details are available here.

Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands will be presented at Zürich Film Festival as part of a live performance by The Young Gods, on Wednesday, September 30th, 20:45, Kosmos 6. More information TBA soon.

Picture of Light will be presented at Cineteca Madrid on October 10th. Screening details are available here.

Becoming Animal will be presented at the 18th edition of Festival Image de Ville in Marseille, France, from October 15-20th. Screening details TBA soon here.

Petropolis will be presented as part of a special program on climate entitled “Gallery of the Futures,” at BOZAR - Center of Fine Arts, Brussels, on November 24th. More details TBA soon.

Also, Becoming Animal is now available on Vimeo On Demand (worldwide, except USA) courtesy of Maximage. Share it with your friends!

Soundings: Documentary Film and the Listening Experience

Lars Koens and Demelza Kooij have published a chapter on the use of sound and voice-over in Peter Mettler’s documentaries, including Picture of Light, Gambling, Gods and LSD, Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands, and The End Of Time. Their essay, “Creative Use of Voice in Non-Fiction Narrative Film” in Soundings: Documentary Film and the Listening Experience, is available as a free download from the University of Huddersfield Press. Read it here!

“Language forms an integral part of Mettler’s filmmaking process, exemplified by the diverse use of voice. […] He prefers to reveal the limits and artificiality of language, as opposed to reading out facts. For example, the voice-over in The End of Time starts with what could be regarded as a Nietzschean claim: ‘Things don’t have names, we made them all up’. Film provides an excellent ground for such philosophical explorations, only to find new boundaries of course — those of the film medium itself. In the cinema, we cannot authentically experience the Northern Lights nor feel the effects of LSD. The translation from lived to cinema experience is fundamental to Mettler’s reflexive style.” (169–170)