Director
Peter Hutton
82 years · Detroit, Michigan, USA · 23 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 23
14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988
2018 · Self
All About Bolex
2015 · Actor
Three Landscapes
2013 · Director
365 Day Project
2007 · Self
At Sea
2007 · Director
Skagafjördur
2004 · Director
Certain Women
2004 · Clementine's Dad
Two Rivers
2003 · Director
Looking at the Sea
2001 · Director
Time and Tide
2000 · Director, Editor
Study of a River
1997 · Director
Lodz Symphony
1993 · Director
In Titan's Goblet
1991 · Director
No Picnic
1990 · Cinematography
New York Portrait
1990 · Director
New York Portrait, Chapter III
1990 · Director
Landscape (for Manon)
1987 · Director
Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City)
1984 · Director
New York Portrait, Chapter II
1981 · Director
New York Portrait, Chapter I
1979 · Director
July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon
1971 · Director
Riverbody
1970 · Actor
In Marin County
1970 · Director