What is time? A reality? An illusion? A concept? These questions lie at the heart of visionary filmmaker Peter Mettler's latest work.

Peter Mettler was last seen at MIFF in 2010 with Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands, a stunning, word-free visual essay on the ugliness of industrialisation. Here, he brings his unique perspective to the elusive nature of time, presenting "a meditation" on an idea many may consider ambiguous, puzzling or un-filmable.

From physicists at the Large Hadron Collider to squatters in the living fossil of Detroit to a man holding out against lava flows slowly eating an island, Mettler travels the globe, exploring and connecting scientific, philosophical and personal perspectives on time. With sublime cinematography and hypnotic electronic music (from Richie Hawtin, who also appears in the film), the result of his travels is a mind-bending cinematic poem of ravishing imagery, rumbling sound and ideas both eternal and ephemeral.

"Mettler's most readily engaging film since Picture of Light - his 1994 ode to the majesty of the Northern Lights - yet also his most experimental and intellectually provocative." - Cinema Scope

D/S Peter Mettler P Cornelia Seitler, Ingrid Veninger, Brigitte Hofer, Gerry Flahive Dist Palace Films TD DCP/2012