Picture of Light
Peter Mettler, Canada, Suisse, 1993o
Après avoir été directeur photo auprès d’Atom Egoyan, Peter Mettler est passé réalisateur avec ce documentaire, dans lequel il part à la poursuite des aurores boréales. Une œuvre saisissante qui s’inscrit, à l’instar des premiers Egoyan, comme un incontournable de la Nouvelle vague torontoise.
Picture of Light remains Mettler’s richest work both in terms of its themes and visual splendour.
Jason AndersonI've always assumed it would be impossible to photograph such a glorious and mysterious sight as the northern lights, but Canadian experimental filmmaker Peter Mettler has done it. His fascinating, beautiful, and evocative documentary feature about his trip to the Canadian arctic is a mixture of science and poetry that indirectly recalls Michael Snow's La region centrale.
Jonathan Rosenbaum