Visions du Réel presents a live masterclass with Peter Mettler on May 1st, at 15:00 Central European Standard Time (9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time), moderated by Jean Perret and Emmanuel Chicon. This workshop is free for all to attend online!

Visit the Visions du Réel website to participate in the masterclass here.

Peter will also be performing a live-streamed visual mix to the audio recordings of YoshtoYoshto, previously performed together live with anthropologist Jeremy Narby (The Cosmic Serpent) and musician Franz Treichler (The Young Gods). To compose this "live divination", the three artists have drawn their inspiration from the Amazonian Yaminuaha people’s metaphorical language, creating an improvisation that describes our world, its ambiguities and its interactions. The live performance will take place at 2200 Central European Standard Time, or 4:00 pm Eastern Standard Time.

Visit the Visions du Réel website to watch the live show here.

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Download the Visions du Réel 2020 programme (PDF) here

View Peter’s retrospective here

Amidst the unprecedented measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Visions du Réel 2020 is taking place entirely online! As festival director Émilie Bujès explains, Visions du Réel 2020 “will resolutely be held on the Internet, in almost all its generous diversity, and will visit the spectators at home, further expanding the possible territories.” While much has been lost in this unavoidable change, what makes it wonderful is that all of the work will be presented online for free, for anyone to watch!

Peter’s atelier retrospective is continuing as planned, with DAFilms.com hosting the free presentation of his films from April 17th to May 2nd, along with the festival’s other offerings. All of the work is available to view only for this limited time so be sure to check it out!

Peter will present his masterclass online on Friday 1 May at 1500 CET, moderated by Jean Perret and Emmanuel Chicon. Peter will also present a live video mixing performance on the same day at 2200 CET.

Links to attend these streaming events will be updated as soon as they are available!

Visit the Visions du Réel site for more information.

Visions du Réel is a highly acclaimed film festival screening everything from international premieres to career-spanning retrospectives. This Swiss festival hosts masterclasses, debates with film directors, meetings with professionals and many cultural mediation activities, as well as industry events from April 24 to May 2, 2020.

This year, Visions du Réel will honour Peter’s work with a retrospective spanning the festival, as well as a Masterclass open to the public for those wishing to learn about his unique style and approach to filmmaking.

For more information, visit Visions du Réel's website.

Peter will present a special screening of Gambling, Gods and LSD in person at this year’s Meteoric Truth or Consequences documentary film festival in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, from October 18–20th.

Gambling Gods and LSD with Peter Mettler in person – Spaceport Visitors Center, Friday October 18th, 2:30pm

Full details are available on the festival’s website here.

Becoming Animal will be presented at 9e Rencontres de cinéma Terra Nostra in Saint Martin de Lansuscle, Cévennes, on October 13th!

Details are available here.

Becoming Animal will be presented at the Art Gallery of Hamilton on Sunday October 27th, 3:30pm, as part of the AGH Film Festival!

View screening and ticket details on the AGH’s website.

Becoming Animal has been presented at the following recent festivals:

Edinburgh Science Festival, UK

Seoul Eco Film Festival, Korea

Ecofest International Ecology Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania

Human Rights Nights, Bologna, Italy

ANFFIS Animal Film Festival, Suncheon, Korea

“A long time ago, when I was still a teenager, I snuck into the Oracle of Delphi at night with two friends, to sleep in the open air on the ancient stones. The next morning, my friends found out that they had dreamt the same images: an excessive bacchanalian procession of our ancestors. I, on the other hand, could not remember anything... Maybe this is why I, for decades, have been searching for the signs and the essence of our future in the intoxication of images and sounds – the ones I create myself and the ones that surround us and affect us.”

For Bildrausch – Filmfest Basel, Peter Mettler has crafted a new installation, entitled The Oracle, that channels his search for true and profound images. This work will be projected onto the ceiling of Stadtkino Basel for the next year, inviting viewers to enjoy a sensorial and pictorial ecstasy.

Bildrausch – Filmfest Basel – Basel, Switzerland

Opening: Thursday June 20th at 20:45 Stadtkino-Bar

For more information, visit Bildrausch – Filmfest Basel’s website.

Notes From the Underground (2019), a new installation by Peter Mettler, is at Videoex 2019 in Zürich, Switzerland, from May 25th to June 2nd!

Visit the festival’s website here.

Upcoming screenings of Becoming Animal –

Art Cinema Ponrepo, Agosto Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic – May 15, 2019.

Seoul Eco Film Festival, South Korea – May 23–29, 2019.

9Ecofest International Ecology Film Festival, Bucharest – May 2019.

Human Rights Nights, Bologna, Italy – June 2, 2019.

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Nyon, France

Peter will be attending this year's Visions Du Réel Festival to participate on a jury in the Industry section for new project pitches.

Check out the lineup at https://www.visionsdureel.ch/en

Hamburg, Germany

Peter will attend this year’s Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg in person to present Becoming Animal and Gambling, Gods and LSD.

For more info:

Becoming Animal – Friday, April 5th, 22h00
Gambling, Gods and LSD – Saturday April 6th, 17h45

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Becoming Animal (2018)

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Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002)

Göteborg, Sweden

Becoming Animal screens at the 41st Göteborg Film Festival, the largest film festival in Nordic Europe, with three screenings this January. Peter will be in attendance on the 30th and 31st! Visit the festival’s website for tickets and more information.

"Becoming Animal challenges our world of thought in an attempt to bridge the mental barrier between man and environment. Is it possible to experience a perspective where man is not in the center, but where we meet animals and nature around us at the same level? What role do language and modern technology play in such an attempt? [...] Perhaps a radical transformation of our perception is what is needed if the current destructive development is to be heeded?" - Tobias Åkesson

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Happy new year! Becoming Animal will be presented at the 2019 Solothurner Filmtage, Switzerland, on January 26th and 30th. With Peter Mettler in attendance.

Programme info can be found at the festival’s website here.

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