Peter Hutton
Directing
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.
As actor 5
On the crew 35
Baseball
1994
Born in Flames
1983
The Statue of Liberty
1985
Three Landscapes
2013
Lodz Symphony
1993
Boston Fire
1979
At Sea
2007
Two Rivers
2003
The Deadly Art of Survival
1979
Eerie
1997
The Gates
2008
Florence
1975
Sweetgrass
2009
Lenin Portrait
1982
No Picnic
1990
The Making of a Superhero Musical
2015
July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon
1971
Study of a River
1997
New York Portrait
1990
New York Portrait, Chapter III
1990
In Titan's Goblet
1991
Looking at the Sea
2001
Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)
1974
The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper and The Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott
2012
New York Portrait, Chapter I
1979
New York Portrait, Chapter II
1981
At Sea, In Berlin, Lenin Portrait
1982
In Marin County
1970
Time and Tide
2000
Landscape (for Manon)
1987
Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City)
1984
New York Near Sleep for Saskia
1972
For Horatio Alger
1970
Skagafjördur
2004
Sketches for Late City Final
1991