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TECTONIC PLATES

100 minutes

Grades 10-Adult

1994

Produced by Rhombus Media & Hauer Rawlence Productions/ A film
by Peter Mettler

The geology of continental drift becomes a metaphor for the
evolution of human culture in this unusual drama, which won
critical raves as a stage play in London, Glasgow, Montreal
and Ottawa. An art student in Venice meets an array of
characters who, twenty years later, form the inspiration for
her paintings. Moving between actual locations in Venice and
a sparsely dressed stage that contains a pool mirroring the
watery streets of the city, TECTONIC PLATES is dreamlike in
its imagery, theatrical in its staging, and philosophical in
its ideas. This audacious metaphor linking human actions with
geologic forces provides the insight and power in this
"adaptation-integration" of the Theatre Repere stage
production of Robert Lepage's Tectonic Plates.

Awards: Christopher Columbus Award, Most Original and
Creative of the Festival, Columbus International Film & Video
Festival; Most Innovative, Figueira da Foz International Film
Festival, Portugal; Carrefour International De Theatre de
Quebec; Festival of Festivals, Toronto; Festival
International du Nouveau Cinema et de la Video, Montreal;
International Film Festivals: Vancouver, Vienna, Mannheim,
Rotterdam, San Sebastian, Jerusalem, Input93

• "It is a bizarre understatement to call Peter Mettler's
  experimental film. TECTONIC PLATES merely unique. No other
  film in history has created a visual and emotional parallel
  between a planet-sized geological concept and a person-sized
  romantic trauma." The Toronto Sun
  

• "Mettler carries off the film with a combination of
  unforgettable images, artful performances and a kind of
  inexorable intelligence that guides his working out of the
  theme." Now Magazine
  

MUSIC, THEATRE, DRAMA

ISBN: 1-56029-578-3
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