Peter Mettler featured as guest in Warsaw and Wroclaw
The Swiss-Canadian artist Peter Mettler is featured as the special guest at this year’s Planete + Doc Film Festival in Warsaw and Wroclaw with a retrospective comprised of five of his films.
08.05.2013
The versatile artist Peter Mettler – filmmaker, photographer and musician – will be the focus of the 10th Planete + Doc Film Festival held in Warsaw (May 10-19, 2013) and Wroclaw (May 12-19). In collaboration with SWISS FILMS, the festival will showcase five of his films, including his most recent production “The End Of Time,” which celebrated its premiere in Locarno and will now be presented for the first time in Poland in conjunction with the festival. Ten years after winning the award for Best Film with “Gambling Gods and LSD” (2002), Peter Mettler, who lives in Canada and Switzerland, returns to the capital of Poland to accompany the retrospective which serves as the prelude to two further cooperation programmes with festivals in Poland this year in May and July. Apart from the two films mentioned above, the festival audiences in Warsaw and Wroclaw can also discover Mettler’s “Petropolis” (2009), “Balifilm” (1997) and “Picture of Light” (1994).
Photo exhibitions, masterclass and live performance
The festival has also organised three photo exhibitions by Peter Mettler, two in Warsaw and one in Wroclaw. In addition, the artist will conduct a masterclass in Warsaw and participate in a panel discussion and a Q & A session in Wroclaw. In collaboration with the British musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist Fred Frith, an exclusive performance fusing film and music will be offered in Warsaw.
Five Swiss documentary films in competition
Four further feature-length documentary films from Switzerland will be in the running for an award together with “The End Of Time” in various competitions at the festival in Poland, which ranks as one of the most interesting for the genre in Eastern Europe: the box-office hit “More Than Honey” by Markus Imhoof; “Vaters Garten” by Peter Liechti, who was honoured with the festival’s Millennium Award for his film “The Sound Of Insects” in 2009; “Forbidden Voices” by Barbara Miller; and “Sagrada” by Stefan Haupt. Alice Schmid’s film “Die Kinder vom Napf” will also be screened in the festival programme.
Geneva, May 8, 2013