Nothing But Time will be published October 3

Friends, so very happy to announce that, after eleven years of dialogue with one of my favourite artists (and humans), Nothing But Time: Conversations with Peter Mettler on Life and Cinema will be published by Anvil Press on October 3. Please consider pre-ordering, whether from your favourite independent book retailer or directly from Anvil.

About the book:

In the cosmology of Canadian cinema, Peter Mettler is our seeker. From his nonfiction adventure film Picture of Light, in which a small crew travels north to capture the aurora borealis, to his sprawling, Genie Award-winning travelogue/essay film Gambling, Gods and LSD, Mettler has maintained a constant forge into the terra incognita of the transcendental. With the release of the auteur’s most ambitious film, While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts, there has never been a better time to discover Mettler’s singular body of work.

The product of eleven years of conversations with playwright and author José Teodoro, Nothing But Time explores this extraordinary artist’s life and practice, which brims with tales of uncanny coincidence, collaborations with fellow artists such as Atom Egoyan, Robert Lepage, Fred Frith, Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, and Jim O’Rourke, and encounters with visionaries from the worlds of science and spirituality. In Mettler’s story, the yearning for knowledge is balanced with the surrender to boundless mystery and an uncommon commitment to cultivating our collective sense of wonder.