Peter Hutton
Directing
Born August 24, 1944 · 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.
Directed (25)
Three Landscapes
2013
At Sea
2007
Skagafjördur
2004
Two Rivers
2003
Looking at the Sea
2001
Time and Tide
2000
Study of a River
1997
Lodz Symphony
1993
In Titan's Goblet
1991
Sketches for Late City Final
1991
New York Portrait
1990
New York Portrait, Chapter III
1990
Landscape (for Manon)
1987
Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City)
1984
At Sea, In Berlin, Lenin Portrait
1982
Lenin Portrait
1982
New York Portrait, Chapter II
1981
Boston Fire
1979
New York Portrait, Chapter I
1979
Florence
1975
Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)
1974
New York Near Sleep for Saskia
1972
July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon
1971
In Marin County
1970
For Horatio Alger
1970
