Peter Hutton
Known for: Directing
Born: August 24, 1944
Died: June 25, 2016
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
39 movies · 1 TV show, newest first
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14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988
2018
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The Making of a Superhero Musical
2015
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All About Bolex
2015
7.0
Three Landscapes
2013
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The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper and The Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott
2012
6.7
Sweetgrass
2009
6.1
The Gates
2008
10.0
365 Day Project
2007
7.1
At Sea
2007
6.7
Skagafjördur
2004
9.0
Certain Women
2004
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Two Rivers
2003
8.0
Looking at the Sea
2001
7.1
Time and Tide
2000NR
Eerie
1997
6.4
Study of a River
1997
7.5
Baseball
1994
6.2
Lodz Symphony
1993
7.0
In Titan's Goblet
1991NR
Sketches for Late City Final
1991
6.9
No Picnic
1990
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New York Portrait
1990
8.3
New York Portrait, Chapter III
1990
6.5
Landscape (for Manon)
1987
6.9
The Statue of Liberty
1985
7.5
Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City)
1984
6.2
Born in Flames
1983NR
At Sea, In Berlin, Lenin Portrait
1982NR
Lenin Portrait
1982
7.5
New York Portrait, Chapter II
19816.7
Boston Fire
1979
7.3
New York Portrait, Chapter I
1979
6.3
The Deadly Art of Survival
19796.0
Florence
19756.7
Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)
19749.0
New York Near Sleep for Saskia
1972
5.7
July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon
1971
10.0
Riverbody
1970
7.5
In Marin County
1970NR
For Horatio Alger
1970