Peter Hutton
Born: 1944-08-24 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Died: 2016-06-25
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2018
- 14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988 as Self
2015
- All About Bolex
- The Making of a Superhero Musical ... (Thanks)
2013
- Three Landscapes ... (Director)
2012
2009
- Sweetgrass ... (Thanks)
2008
- The Gates ... (Additional Camera)
2007
- At Sea ... (Director)
- 365 Day Project as Self
2004
- Certain Women as Clementine's Dad
- Skagafjördur ... (Director)
2003
- Two Rivers ... (Director)
2001
- Looking at the Sea ... (Director)
2000
- Time and Tide ... (Director)
1997
- Eerie ... (Director of Photography)
- Study of a River ... (Director)
1994
- Baseball ... (Additional Director of Photography)
1993
- Lodz Symphony ... (Director)
1991
- In Titan's Goblet ... (Director)
- Sketches for Late City Final ... (Director)
1990
- No Picnic ... (Director of Photography)
- New York Portrait, Chapter III ... (Director)
- New York Portrait ... (Director)
1987
- Landscape (for Manon) ... (Director)
1985
- The Statue of Liberty ... (Additional Director of Photography)
1984
- Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City) ... (Director)
1983
- Born in Flames ... (Camera Operator)
1982
- Lenin Portrait ... (Director)
- At Sea, In Berlin, Lenin Portrait ... (Director)
1981
- New York Portrait, Chapter II ... (Director)
1979
- Boston Fire ... (Director)
- The Deadly Art of Survival ... (Production Assistant)
- 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
1970
- Riverbody
- In Marin County ... (Director)
- For Horatio Alger ... (Director)