Peter Hutton

Directing·Aug 24, 1944·Detroit, Michigan, USA

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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.

Film	Credit
14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–19882018 · Self	Self
All About Bolex2015 · Actor	Actor
Three Landscapes2013 · Director	Director
365 Day Project2007 · Self	Self
At Sea2007 · Director	Director
Skagafjördur2004 · Director	Director
Certain Women2004 · Clementine's Dad	Clementine's Dad
Two Rivers2003 · Director	Director
Looking at the Sea2001 · Director	Director
Time and Tide2000 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
EEerie1997 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
Study of a River1997 · Director	Director
Lodz Symphony1993 · Director	Director
In Titan's Goblet1991 · Director	Director
SSketches for Late City Final1991 · Director	Director
No Picnic1990 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
New York Portrait1990 · Director	Director
New York Portrait, Chapter III1990 · Director	Director
Landscape (for Manon)1987 · Director	Director
Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City)1984 · Director	Director
AAt Sea, In Berlin, Lenin Portrait1982 · Director	Director
LLenin Portrait1982 · Director	Director
New York Portrait, Chapter II1981 · Director	Director
BBoston Fire1979 · Director	Director
New York Portrait, Chapter I1979 · Director	Director
FFlorence1975 · Director	Director
IImages of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)1974 · Director	Director
NNew York Near Sleep for Saskia1972 · Director	Director
July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon1971 · Director	Director
Riverbody1970 · Actor	Actor
In Marin County1970 · Director	Director
FFor Horatio Alger1970 · Director	Director