Gambling, Gods and LSD
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2002-09-08
Runtime: 180 mins
Director: Peter Mettler
Writer: Alexandra Rockingham Gill, Peter Mettler
Spoken language: English
Genres: Documentary
Original title: Gambling, Gods and LSD
Production Companies: Maximage, Grimthorpe Film
Production Countries: Canada, Switzerland
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