Peter Mettler - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Peter Mettler is a Canadian film director and cinematographer.
Peter Mettler was born in 1958 to Swiss parents and raised in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. He became interested in the power of film and images at an early age, making his first films, Super 8 #1 and Reverie, at the age of eighteen.

He went on to study cinema at Ryerson University

Ryerson University

Ryerson University is a public research university located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its urban campus is adjacent to Yonge-Dundas Square located at the busiest intersection in Downtown Toronto. The majority of its buildings are in the blocks northeast of the square in Toronto's Garden...

(1977–1982) where he made two short films, Lancalot Freely (1980) and Gregory (1981), and the award-winning feature film Scissere (1982).

It is at Ryerson where Mettler began to collaborate with many of his contemporaries.