Peter Hutton
Directing
1944-08-24 · Detroit, 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.
Filmography
14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988
2018 · Movie
The Making of a Superhero Musical
2015 · Movie
All About Bolex
2015 · Movie
Three Landscapes
2013 · Movie
The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper and The Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott
2012 · Movie
Sweetgrass
2009 · Movie
The Gates
2008 · Movie
365 Day Project
2007 · Movie
At Sea
2007 · Movie
Skagafjördur
2004 · Movie
Certain Women
2004 · Movie
Two Rivers
2003 · Movie
Looking at the Sea
2001 · Movie
Time and Tide
2000 · Movie
Eerie
1997 · Movie
Study of a River
1997 · Movie
Baseball
1994 · Series
Lodz Symphony
1993 · Movie
In Titan's Goblet
1991 · Movie
Sketches for Late City Final
1991 · Movie
No Picnic
1990 · Movie
New York Portrait
1990 · Movie
New York Portrait, Chapter III
1990 · Movie
Landscape (for Manon)
1987 · Movie
The Statue of Liberty
1985 · Movie
Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City)
1984 · Movie
Born in Flames
1983 · Movie
Lenin Portrait
1982 · Movie
At Sea, In Berlin, Lenin Portrait
1982 · Movie
New York Portrait, Chapter II
1981 · Movie
Boston Fire
1979 · Movie
The Deadly Art of Survival
1979 · Movie
New York Portrait, Chapter I
1979 · Movie
Florence
1975 · Movie
Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)
1974 · Movie
New York Near Sleep for Saskia
1972 · Movie
July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon
1971 · Movie
Riverbody
1970 · Movie
For Horatio Alger
1970 · Movie
In Marin County
1970 · Movie