Peter Hutton

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Peter Hutton

Directing August 24, 1944

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…

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Baseball

Baseball

7.5 1994 TV Show
Born in Flames

Born in Flames

6.2 1983 Movie
Sweetgrass

Sweetgrass

6.7 2009 Movie
At Sea

At Sea

7.1 2007 Movie
The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty

6.9 1985 Movie
Three Landscapes

Three Landscapes

7.0 2013 Movie
Study of a River

Study of a River

6.4 1997 Movie
Lodz Symphony

Lodz Symphony

6.2 1993 Movie
The Gates

The Gates

6.1 2008 Movie
Landscape (for Manon)

Landscape (for Manon)

6.5 1987 Movie
Time and Tide

Time and Tide

7.1 2000 Movie
No Picnic

No Picnic

6.9 1990 Movie

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2018
    14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988

    Movie Self

  2. 2015
    The Making of a Superhero Musical

    Movie Thanks

  3. 2015
    All About Bolex

    Movie

  4. 2013
    Three Landscapes

    Movie Director

  5. 2012
    The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper and The Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott

    Movie Cinematography

  6. 2009
    Sweetgrass

    Movie Thanks

  7. 2008
    The Gates

    Movie Additional Camera

  8. 2007
    365 Day Project

    Movie Self

  9. 2007
    At Sea

    Movie Director

  10. 2004
    Skagafjördur

    Movie Director

  11. 2004
    Certain Women

    Movie Clementine's Dad

  12. 2003
    Two Rivers

    Movie Director

  13. 2001
    Looking at the Sea

    Movie Director

  14. 2000
    Time and Tide

    Movie Director

  15. 1997
    Eerie

    Movie Director of Photography

  16. 1997
    Study of a River

    Movie Director

More credits
  1. 1994
    Baseball

    TV show Additional Director of Photography

  2. 1993
    Lodz Symphony

    Movie Director

  3. 1991
    In Titan's Goblet

    Movie Director

  4. 1991
    Sketches for Late City Final

    Movie Director

  5. 1990
    No Picnic

    Movie Director of Photography

  6. 1990
    New York Portrait

    Movie Director

  7. 1990
    New York Portrait, Chapter III

    Movie Director

  8. 1987
    Landscape (for Manon)

    Movie Director

  9. 1985
    The Statue of Liberty

    Movie Additional Director of Photography

  10. 1984
    Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City)

    Movie Director

  11. 1983
    Born in Flames

    Movie Camera Operator

  12. 1982
    Lenin Portrait

    Movie Director

  13. 1982
    At Sea, In Berlin, Lenin Portrait

    Movie Director

  14. 1981
    New York Portrait, Chapter II

    Movie Director

  15. 1979
    Boston Fire

    Movie Director

  16. 1979
    The Deadly Art of Survival

    Movie Production Assistant

  17. 1979
    New York Portrait, Chapter I

    Movie Director

  18. 1975
    Florence

    Movie Director

  19. 1974
    Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)

    Movie Director

  20. 1972
    New York Near Sleep for Saskia

    Movie Director

  21. 1971
    July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon

    Movie Director

  22. 1970
    Riverbody

    Movie

  23. 1970
    In Marin County

    Movie Director

  24. 1970
    For Horatio Alger

    Movie Director