Peter Hutton

Known for DirectingBorn 1944-08-24Died 2016-06-25Detroit, Michigan, USA

Peter Hutton (born 1944 in Detroit, Michigan) was an experimental filmmaker, known primarily for his silent cinematic portraits of cities and landscapes around the world. He also worked as a professional cinematographer, most notably for his former student Ken Burns. Hutton studied painting, sculpture and film at the San Francisco Art Institute. He taught filmmaking at CalArts, Hampshire College, Harvard University, SUNY Purchase, and Bard College, where he served as the director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program from 1989 to 2016. Hutton's films are distributed by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco. In May 2008 the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a full retrospective of Hutton's films.Read more

Movies & web series

365 Day Project

Riverbody

Certain Women

New York Near Sleep for Saskia

Looking at the Sea

New York Portrait, Chapter III

Baseball

Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City)

In Marin County

At Sea

Three Landscapes

New York Portrait, Chapter II

Sweetgrass

Time and Tide

No Picnic

The Statue of Liberty

In Titan's Goblet

New York Portrait, Chapter I

Boston Fire

Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)

Study of a River

Skagafjördur

The Gates

Landscape (for Manon)

Lodz Symphony

The Deadly Art of Survival

Born in Flames

Florence

July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon

14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988

All About Bolex

The Making of a Superhero Musical

The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper and The Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott

Two Rivers

Eerie

Sketches for Late City Final

New York Portrait

At Sea, In Berlin, Lenin Portrait

Lenin Portrait

For Horatio Alger