“While the Green Grass Grows” von Peter Mettler
Published: Thursday, Jan 4th 2024, 13:11
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"While the Green Grass Grows" by director Peter Mettler is nothing less than a film about everything: the becoming and the passing, the mystical and the immediate, the near and the far.
At the center of the film are the parents of Swiss-Canadian director Peter Mettler ("Gambling, Gods And LSD", "Becoming Animal"). They died during the filming.
With his characteristic sensitivity, Mettler approached his family and thus the world with curiosity and improvisation - underpinned by meditative images and carried by hypnotic sound. In doing so, he drew a line from his individual grief work to the big picture, to the course of events.
Those who carefully step into the flow of this film and allow themselves to drift will be gifted with sensitive reflections on the nature of time and our existence that resonate far beyond the 166 minutes of the film.
"While the Green Grass Grows", which is a documentary film and film essay, comprises two parts of a seven-part, ten-hour diary project of the same title that Mettler has been working on for four years.
"While the Green Grass Grows" will be shown in cinemas in German-speaking Switzerland from January 11 and at the Solothurn Film Festival on January 20.*
*This text by Raphael Amstutz, Keystone-SDA, was realized with the help of the Gottlieb and Hans Vogt Foundation.
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