Peter Hutton
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 24, 1944, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Died
- June 25, 2016
- Movies
- 30
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 Movies
Study of a River
1997
At Sea
2007
Landscape (for Manon)
1987
Time and Tide
2000
New York Portrait, Chapter I
1979
New York Portrait, Chapter II
1981
In Titan's Goblet
1991
Skagafjördur
2004
July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon
1971
Three Landscapes
2013
Filmography
| 2018 | 14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988 | Self |
| 2015 | All About Bolex | |
| 2007 | 365 Day Project | Self |
| 2004 | Certain Women | Clementine's Dad |
| 1970 | Riverbody |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2013 | Three Landscapes | Director |
| 2007 | At Sea | Director |
| 2004 | Skagafjördur | Director |
| 2003 | Two Rivers | Director |
| 2001 | Looking at the Sea | Director |
| 2000 | Time and Tide | Director |
| 1997 | Study of a River | Director |
| 1993 | Lodz Symphony | Director |
| 1991 | In Titan's Goblet | Director |
| 1991 | Sketches for Late City Final | Director |
| 1990 | New York Portrait | Director |
| 1990 | New York Portrait, Chapter III | Director |
| 1987 | Landscape (for Manon) | Director |
| 1984 | Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City) | Director |
| 1982 | At Sea, In Berlin, Lenin Portrait | Director |
| 1982 | Lenin Portrait | Director |
| 1981 | New York Portrait, Chapter II | Director |
| 1979 | Boston Fire | Director |
| 1979 | New York Portrait, Chapter I | Director |
| 1975 | Florence | Director |
| 1974 | Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74) | Director |
| 1972 | New York Near Sleep for Saskia | Director |
| 1971 | July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon | Director |
| 1970 | In Marin County | Director |
| 1970 | For Horatio Alger | Director |
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