Peter Hutton
Director
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.
Born1944-08-24
Place of BirthDetroit, Michigan, USA
Known For
6.2
Lodz Symphony
Documentary
7.0
Three Landscapes
Documentary
7.1
At Sea
Documentary
6.7
Boston Fire
Documentary
6.0
Florence
Documentary
Two Rivers
Documentary
5.7
July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon
Documentary
Lenin Portrait
New York Portrait
Documentary
8.0
Looking at the Sea
Documentary
6.9
New York Portrait, Chapter I
Documentary
7.7
New York Portrait, Chapter III
Documentary
7.1
New York Portrait, Chapter II
Documentary
For Horatio Alger
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Time and Tide
Documentary
7.5
Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City)
Documentary
9.0
New York Near Sleep for Saskia
6.8
In Titan's Goblet
At Sea, In Berlin, Lenin Portrait
7.5
In Marin County
Documentary
6.3
Study of a River
Documentary
6.7
Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)
Documentary
6.3
Landscape (for Manon)
Documentary
6.2
Skagafjördur
Documentary