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Explores our perception of time.

A satellite dish salesman desperately attempts to find the radical woman he has fallen in love with while both of them are being pursued by the police.

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, expanding perception, the craving for security in an uncertain world. Fact joins with fantasy; the search for meaning and the search for ecstasy begin to merge.

An audio-visual, trance-like, epic diary that looks at the miracles contained in everyday things and occurrences. Peter Mettler follows and weaves, with his own unique cinematic signature, the flow of rivers and lives that include the magnitude of the passing of his own parents and the questions of where do we all go from here - both on a personal and on a global scale.

A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.

In his audio-visual diary, award-winning filmmaker Peter Mettler looks at the miracles contained in everyday things and occurrences. His meditative approach and sensitive camera searches, remembers, and creates a generous space to expose the fragility and profound nature of relationships, where reflections about the human condition and our environment follow one another in a stream of consciousness. At times tragic or comedic, philosophical or poetic, the diary is laced with psychedelic and experimental imagery and sound that enhance its trance-like feel. Combining personal conversations, reflection, family history, memoir, homage, and love, Mettler takes the documentary form somewhere it hasn't been before. A work of maturity and the director's most intimate film to date that interrogates our universal human destiny with grace and generosity.

Three generations of the Caribou Inuit family come together to tell the story of their journey as Canada's last nomads. From the independent life of hunting on the Keewatin tundra to taking the reins of the new territory of Nunavut on April 1, 1999, we see it all. The film is the result of a close collaboration between Ole Gjerstad, a southern Canadian, and Martin Kreelak, an Inuk. It's Martin's family that we follow, as the story is told through his own voice, through those of the Elders, and through those of the teens and young adults who were born in the settlements and form the first generation of those growing up with satellite TV and a permanent home.

While the plots of some films can be readily summarized, others have a spirit so unique that they defy description and categorization. Leda and the Swan is such a film. Perhaps it is a story within a story within a myth.