Peter Hutton
Directing
Born August 24, 1944 in 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
Self
The Making of a Superhero Musical
All About Bolex
Three Landscapes
The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper and The Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott
Sweetgrass
The Gates
365 Day Project
Self
At Sea
Skagafjördur
Certain Women
Clementine's Dad
Two Rivers
Looking at the Sea
Time and Tide
Study of a River
Baseball
Lodz Symphony
In Titan's Goblet
No Picnic
New York Portrait
New York Portrait, Chapter III
Landscape (for Manon)
The Statue of Liberty
Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City)
Born in Flames
New York Portrait, Chapter II
New York Portrait, Chapter I
The Deadly Art of Survival
July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon
Riverbody
In Marin County