While the Green Grass Grows

Name: While the Green Grass Grows
Start: 2024-05-30UTC15:00
Location: CINETECA - Plató

Peter Mettler

Canada, Switzerland

2023

166

Spanish Premiere

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Synopsis

A beautiful and mature first-person film essay in diary form, in which Peter Mettler relates to the world through his camera and confronts the inner landscape of his existence as he explores the natural and familiar scenery of the swiss Alps and Canada. An exercise in narrative freedom dealing with the passage of time, one that takes us back to the events of the last few years, including the death of his mother, the need to spend time with his father before his death, and the pandemic. Where was I before I was born? How does a cloud respond if you ask how old it is? asks the filmmaker, camera in hand. From the poetic to the prosaic, we make our way through a meditative and deliberative work that defies conventional narrative, consisting of parts 1 and 6 of a seven-part film diary. (RS)

Festivals

2023 - Visions du Réel - Grand Prix
2023 - DOK Leipzig - Golden Dove
2023 - Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) - Grand Prize

Director biography

Peter Mettler

Melding intuition with dramatic, documentary, and experimental forms, Mettler’s cinema is at the forefront of contemporary practice. Meditations on our world, rooted in personal experience, his films reflect the visions and wonder of their characters and audiences alike. His magnum opus Gambling, Gods and LSD is described as “a sort of divine sacrament, melting the viewer’s synapses with a mesmerizing array of sights, sounds and genuinely profound insights”. Retrospectives at TIFF, BAFICI, Lincoln Centre, Jeu de Paume Paris, Cinémathèque Suisse, Hot Docs etc.. His films won more than 70 awards worldwide. Mettler has also developed a digital image-mixing software for numerous performances, collaborating with musicians, dancers, poets and multimedia artists in theaters, cinemas, dance clubs and wilderness retreats.

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