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Gambling, Gods and LSD

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Road Movie · Spirituality · Crime/Violence  

  • CountryCanada,Switzerland
  • Production Year2002
  • Running Time180min
  • Format 35mm
Program Note
A filmmaker’s inquiry into transcendence becomes a three-hour trip across countries, connecting people over culture and time. From Toronto, the place of his childhood, Peter Mettler sets out on a journey that includes evangelism at the airport strip, demolition in Las Vegas, chemistry and street life in the model society of Switzerland, and the coexistence of technology and divinity in contemporary India. Mettler blends documentary observation with lyrical camera work, location sound with aural sculpture. The result is an audio-visual composition whose movements challenge our preconceptions, evoking in us the wonder and awe of our daily lives. A lucid and personal portrait of our times, Gambling, Gods and LSD may change the way you look at the world.
Director
Peter Mettler
Over the last 20 years, Peter Mettler has consistently produced works which elude categorization. Melding intuitive processes with drama, essay, experiment and documentation, Mettler’s unique vision merges the forms of cinema with other disciplines to move audiences beyond the material realm. His films, all of which have garnered prizes and been the subject of international retrospectives, include a dramatic feature film, The Top of His Head (1989), Tectonic Plates(1992), a feature-length adaptation of the play by Robert Lepage, the feature documentary, Picture of Light(1994) and the 30-minute lyrical diary, Balifilm.
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  • Director Peter Mettler 피터 메틀러
  • Producer Andreas Zust, Atom Egoyan, Peter Mettler
  • Screenplay Peter Mettler
  • Cinematography Peter Mettler
  • Editor Peter Mettler, Roland Schlimme
  • Production Company maximage GmbH
    Neugasse 6, CH-8005 Zurich, Switzerland
    info@maximage.ch

  • World Sales Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group
    121 Bloor Street East, Suite 1500 Toronto, Ontario M4W 3M5 Canada