Gambling, Gods and LSD
Director Peter Mettler
Countries Canada, Switzerland
Duration 180 min
Synopsis
A filmmaker’s inquiry into transcendence becomes a three-hour trip across countries and cultures, interconnecting people, places and times. From Toronto, 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. 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. It is a mosaic of moments where the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. The film 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 filmmaker’s inquiry into transcendence becomes a three-hour trip across countries and cultures, interconnecting people, places and times. From Toronto, 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. 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. It is a mosaic of moments where the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. The film 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.