Feature documentary
colour, 35 mm
Available in the original English
version and the dubbed French
version

PICTURE OF LIGHT
A film by Peter Mettler
83 minutes 1994
A Grimthorpe Film
production


"A Magnificent Film."
-Cameron Bailey, NOW MAGAZINE

"Our strongest recommendation
provocative and mesmerizing ... "
-Craig MacInnis,
THE TORONTO STAR


"Northern lights set the screen on fire in a
luminous and quirky documentary."
-Bill Brownstein,
THE GAZETTE

" Technology enables PICTURE OF LIGHT ... takes us into a time yet
to be found -- the time of the eternal manifestations of nature."
-Peter Harcourt,
POINT OF VIEW

Best
Canadian Documentary


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Before science explained, the Northern Lights were Interpreted as visions, prophecies
and spirits. PICTURE OF LIGHT is an hallucinatory tale which documents a filmmaker's
journey to Canada's arctic in search of the Northern Lights.

While combining glimpses of the characters who live in this environment and the
crew's both comic and absurd attempts to deal with extremes, the film reflects upon
the paradoxes involved in trying to capture the natural wonder of the Northern
Lights on celluloid.

DOMINO FILM PRESENTS A GRIMTHORPE FILM PRODUCTION " PICTURE OF LIGHT' MUSIC BY JIM O'ROURKE CINEMATOGRAPHY BY PETER METTLER EDITED BY MIKE MUNN AND PETER METTLER LINE PRODUCER INGRID VENINGER EXECUTIVE CO-PRODUCER ANDREAS ZUEST PRODUCED BY PETER METTLER AND ALEXANDRA GILL WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY PETER METTLER

Another critically acclaimed film from
DOMINO'S CANADIAN COLLECTION

French version