A recently released mental patient imagines himself living the lives of three different people he randomly encounters.

“邻家的草分外青”，这句众所周知的谚语实际上诠释了大量事物活动的诱因。比如瑞士阿彭策尔地区一条湍流的周期性变化，积雪的融化会导致河水泛滥；又如驱使彼得·梅特勒（Peter Mettler）的父母Julie和Freddy离开他们的家乡瑞士前往安大略省的风潮；又或者是非传统电影的运镜方式。然而，现在这些都被全球性的疾病大流行所凌驾。 《绿草生长时》于2019年开始拍摄，总计12小时时长，将会分成七个部分放映。它以视听日记的形式，带我们重新回顾了近年以新冠疫情为标志的大事件。这其中，最重大的事莫过于电影制作人双亲的死亡，也是前两章的核心内容。这是一部非常成熟的作品，或许也是导演迄今为止最私人的作品。它以优雅大方的姿态，审视了我们人类的普遍命运。本片荣获2023年瑞士真实影展国际竞赛大奖。

In Bali, the director observes dance rehearsals with sophisticated codes, puppet theatre shows bathed in legends, and tourists bedecked with cameras. With a backdrop of weathered stone sculptures and rice crops, gamelan music comes together with the images in a rhythm of beauty. An adventure in perspective.

Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmaker's mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and sounds, reflecting the fragmented but alluring worlds it attempts to capture.

Working at the limits of what can easily be expressed, filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again turns his camera to filming the unfilmable. From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to probe regions of time we cannot see, to lava flows in Hawaii which have overwhelmed all but one home on the south side of Big Island; from the disintegration of inner-city Detroit, to a Hindu funeral rite near the place of Buddha's enlightenment, Mettler explores our perception of time. He dares to dream the movie of the future while also immersing us in the wonder of the everyday. THE END OF TIME, at once personal, rigorous and visionary, Peter Mettler has crafted a film as compelling and magnificent as its subject.

Examining the relationship between ourselves and the other species we share the planet with has opened up new ways to understand our place in the world. 'Becoming Animal' is an attempt to give some of these new ways of thinking a cinematic form. An essay based on a field trip to Wyoming's wild nature, in the company of the bio-philosopher David Abram and the two visionary filmmakers Emma Davie and Peter Mettler. And with an abundance of bison, moose and birds. Both form and thought are unchained in a film that ends up moving (far) beyond man's self-centred view of nature, and into a state of almost psychedelic receptiveness. As Mettler asks in a diaristic note: Are language and modern technology a barrier or an open door between ourselves and the world that surrounds us? And what about the medium of film itself? Throughout his many years as a filmmaker, Mettler has dealt with abstract phenomena such as northern lights, ecstasy and time itself. With Davie as fellow filmmaker and Abram as a travelling companion, 'Becoming Animal' (named after Abram's landmark book) is a film that makes you see everything with slightly different eyes.