Peter Hutton
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 24, 1944
- Place of birth
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Died
- June 25, 2016
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.
Movies with Peter Hutton
- 365 Day Project 2007 · ★ 10.0
- Certain Women 2004 · ★ 9.0
- Riverbody 1970 · ★ 10.0
- All About Bolex 2015
- 14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988 2018
Movies directed by Peter Hutton
- Study of a River 1997 · ★ 6.4
- At Sea 2007 · ★ 7.1
- Landscape (for Manon) 1987 · ★ 6.5
- Time and Tide 2000 · ★ 7.1
- Boston Fire 1979 · ★ 6.7
- New York Portrait, Chapter I 1979 · ★ 7.2
- New York Portrait, Chapter II 1981 · ★ 7.5
- In Titan's Goblet 1991 · ★ 7.0
- Skagafjördur 2004 · ★ 6.7
- Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74) 1974 · ★ 6.7
- Florence 1975 · ★ 6.0
- July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon 1971 · ★ 5.7
- Three Landscapes 2013 · ★ 7.0
- Lodz Symphony 1993 · ★ 6.2
- New York Portrait, Chapter III 1990 · ★ 8.2
- New York Near Sleep for Saskia 1972 · ★ 9.0
- Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City) 1984 · ★ 7.5
- In Marin County 1970 · ★ 7.5
- Looking at the Sea 2001 · ★ 8.0
- New York Portrait 1990
- Two Rivers 2003
- Sketches for Late City Final 1991
- For Horatio Alger 1970
- At Sea, In Berlin, Lenin Portrait 1982
- Lenin Portrait 1982