Person
Peter Hutton
Directing · 1944–2016 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.
Known for
Baseball
Additional Director of Photography
Eerie
Director of Photography
Born in Flames
Camera Operator
The Statue of Liberty
Additional Director of Photography
All About Bolex
2015
365 Day Project
Self
The Gates
Additional Camera
At Sea
Director
July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon
Director
Three Landscapes
Director
Filmography
- 201814 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988Self
- 2015The Making of a Superhero MusicalThanks
- 2015All About Bolex
- 2013Three LandscapesDirector
- 2012The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper and The Deluded Followers of Joanna SouthcottCinematography
- 2009SweetgrassThanks
- 2008The GatesAdditional Camera
- 2007365 Day ProjectSelf
- 2007At SeaDirector
- 2004SkagafjördurDirector
- 2004Certain WomenClementine's Dad
- 2003Two RiversDirector
- 2001Looking at the SeaDirector
- 2000Time and TideDirector
- 1997EerieDirector of Photography
- 1997Study of a RiverDirector
- 1994BaseballAdditional Director of Photography
- 1993Lodz SymphonyDirector
- 1991In Titan's GobletDirector
- 1991Sketches for Late City FinalDirector
- 1990No PicnicDirector of Photography
- 1990New York PortraitDirector
- 1990New York Portrait, Chapter IIIDirector
- 1987Landscape (for Manon)Director
- 1985The Statue of LibertyAdditional Director of Photography
- 1984Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City)Director
- 1983Born in FlamesCamera Operator
- 1982At Sea, In Berlin, Lenin PortraitDirector
- 1982Lenin PortraitDirector
- 1981New York Portrait, Chapter IIDirector
- 1979Boston FireDirector
- 1979New York Portrait, Chapter IDirector
- 1979The Deadly Art of SurvivalProduction Assistant
- 1975FlorenceDirector
- 1974Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)Director
- 1972New York Near Sleep for SaskiaDirector
- 1971July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the MoonDirector
- 1970Riverbody
- 1970In Marin CountyDirector
- 1970For Horatio AlgerDirector
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