gambling, gods and lsd
GAMBLING, GODS AND LSD
Kanada Å vica
Canada Switzerland 2002
režija/directed by
Peter Mettler
scenarij/screenplay
Peter Mettler
fotografija/cinematography
Peter Mettler
montaža/editing
Peter Mettler, Roland Schlimme
zvok/sound
Peter Mettler, Peter Bräker
producenti/producers
Ingrid Veninger, Alexandra Rockingham Gill, Cornelia Seitler
produkcija/production
maximage GmbH
Neugasse 6
CH-8005 Zürich
T +41-1-2746688 / F +41-1-2748860
info@maximage.ch / www.maximage.ch
Grimthorpe Film Inc.
91, Brunswick Ave
Toronto M5S2L8 Ontario, Canada
T +1-416-9234206 / F +1-416-9234043
grimfilm@ca.inter.net
format/format
35mm, barvni/colour
dolžina/running time
180′
prodaja/world sales
maximage / Grimthorpe Film
Neugasse 6
CH-8005 Zürich
T +41-1-2746688 / F +41-1-2748860
info@maximage.ch / www.maximage.ch
Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, Poland, Spain
Alliance Atlantis
121 Bloor St. East , Suite 1500
Toronto, M4W 3M5, Canada
T +1-416-967-1174 / F +1-416-960-0971
info@allianceatlantis.com
rest of the world
festivali, nagrade (izbor)/festivals, awards (selection)
Visions du Reel, Nyon: Grand Prix & Prix du Publique
Vancouver Int’l Festival: NFB Best Feature Documentary
Montreal Cinema Nouveau: NFB Best Documentary
Duisburger Filmwoche: 3SAT Prize for Best Documentary
Toronto Int’l Festival: Top Twenty Canadian Films
& FIPRESCI Documentary runner-up
Academy of Canadian Cinema: Genie Award: Best Documentary
Swiss Ministry of Culture: Award for Excellence in the Arts
Lincoln Center/Film Comment: One of the Year’s Best Films
A filmmaker’s inquiry into transcendence becomes a three-hour trip across countries and cultures,
interconnecting people, places and times. From Toronto, the scene of his childhood, Peter Mettler sets out on a journey that includes evangelism at the airport strip, demolition in Las Vegas, tracings in the Nevada desert, chemistry and street life in Switzerland, and the coexistence of technology and divinity in contemporary India. Everywhere along the way, the same themes are to be found: thrill-seeking, luck, destiny, belief, the craving for security in an uncertain world. Fact joins with fantasy; the search for meaning and the search for ecstasy begin to merge.
Mettler blends documentary observation with lyrical camerawork. The result is an audio-visual composition whose movements challenge our preconceptions, evoking in us the wonder and awe of our daily existence. It is a mosaic of moments where the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. Gambling, Gods and LSD invites the viewer to actively participate in the making of meaning, so that the central theme of the film and the experience of watching it become one and the same.
A visionary, intuitive journey. A lucid and personal portrait of our times. Gambling, Gods and LSD may change the way you look at the world.
Kanada Å vica
Canada Switzerland 2002
režija/directed by
Peter Mettler
scenarij/screenplay
Peter Mettler
fotografija/cinematography
Peter Mettler
montaža/editing
Peter Mettler, Roland Schlimme
zvok/sound
Peter Mettler, Peter Bräker
producenti/producers
Ingrid Veninger, Alexandra Rockingham Gill, Cornelia Seitler
produkcija/production
maximage GmbH
Neugasse 6
CH-8005 Zürich
T +41-1-2746688 / F +41-1-2748860
info@maximage.ch / www.maximage.ch
Grimthorpe Film Inc.
91, Brunswick Ave
Toronto M5S2L8 Ontario, Canada
T +1-416-9234206 / F +1-416-9234043
grimfilm@ca.inter.net
format/format
35mm, barvni/colour
dolžina/running time
180′
prodaja/world sales
maximage / Grimthorpe Film
Neugasse 6
CH-8005 Zürich
T +41-1-2746688 / F +41-1-2748860
info@maximage.ch / www.maximage.ch
Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, Poland, Spain
Alliance Atlantis
121 Bloor St. East , Suite 1500
Toronto, M4W 3M5, Canada
T +1-416-967-1174 / F +1-416-960-0971
info@allianceatlantis.com
rest of the world
festivali, nagrade (izbor)/festivals, awards (selection)
Visions du Reel, Nyon: Grand Prix & Prix du Publique
Vancouver Int’l Festival: NFB Best Feature Documentary
Montreal Cinema Nouveau: NFB Best Documentary
Duisburger Filmwoche: 3SAT Prize for Best Documentary
Toronto Int’l Festival: Top Twenty Canadian Films
& FIPRESCI Documentary runner-up
Academy of Canadian Cinema: Genie Award: Best Documentary
Swiss Ministry of Culture: Award for Excellence in the Arts
Lincoln Center/Film Comment: One of the Year’s Best Films
A filmmaker’s inquiry into transcendence becomes a three-hour trip across countries and cultures,
interconnecting people, places and times. From Toronto, the scene of his childhood, Peter Mettler sets out on a journey that includes evangelism at the airport strip, demolition in Las Vegas, tracings in the Nevada desert, chemistry and street life in Switzerland, and the coexistence of technology and divinity in contemporary India. Everywhere along the way, the same themes are to be found: thrill-seeking, luck, destiny, belief, the craving for security in an uncertain world. Fact joins with fantasy; the search for meaning and the search for ecstasy begin to merge.
Mettler blends documentary observation with lyrical camerawork. The result is an audio-visual composition whose movements challenge our preconceptions, evoking in us the wonder and awe of our daily existence. It is a mosaic of moments where the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. Gambling, Gods and LSD invites the viewer to actively participate in the making of meaning, so that the central theme of the film and the experience of watching it become one and the same.
A visionary, intuitive journey. A lucid and personal portrait of our times. Gambling, Gods and LSD may change the way you look at the world.
