Peter Hutton
Biography
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.
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Movies (35)
14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988
as Self
2018
The Making of a Superhero Musical
Thanks (Crew)
2015
All About Bolex
2015
Three Landscapes
Director (Directing)
2013
The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper and The Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott
Cinematography (Crew)
2012
Sweetgrass
Thanks (Crew)
2009
The Gates
Additional Camera (Camera)
2008
365 Day Project
2007
At Sea
Director (Directing)
2007
Skagafjördur
Director (Directing)
2004
Certain Women
as Clementine's Dad
2004
Two Rivers
Director (Directing)
2003
Looking at the Sea
Director (Directing)
2001
Time and Tide
Director (Directing)
2000
Study of a River
Director (Directing)
1997
Lodz Symphony
Director (Directing)
1993
In Titan's Goblet
Director (Directing)
1991
Sketches for Late City Final
Director (Directing)
1991
New York Portrait
Director (Directing)
1990
New York Portrait, Chapter III
Director (Directing)
1990
Landscape (for Manon)
Director (Directing)
1987
No Picnic
Director of Photography (Camera)
1986
Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City)
Director (Directing)
1986
The Statue of Liberty
Cinematography (Crew)
1985
Born in Flames
Camera Operator (Camera)
1983
New York Portrait, Chapter II
Director (Directing)
1981
Boston Fire
Director (Directing)
1979
New York Portrait, Chapter I
Director (Directing)
1979
The Deadly Art of Survival
Production Assistant (Production)
1979
Florence
Director (Directing)
1975
Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)
Director (Directing)
1974
New York Near Sleep for Saskia
Director (Directing)
1972
July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon
Director (Directing)
1971
Riverbody
1970
In Marin County
Director (Directing)
1970
